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Left-wing propaganda is occasionally good for more than just hogging bandwidth. It can also be educational\u2026at least, in a \u201cdon\u2019t let this happen to you\u201d sort of way. The ACLU-commissioned “Stealth Attack” comic<\/a> that Kristi Burton Brown just demolished<\/a> for Live Action offers a perfect example of how we can solve vital questions by reverse-engineering the wrong answers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to focus on the below image, in which cartoonist Jen Sorensen is essentially diagramming the Progressive movement’s redefining of freedom<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\"Jen<\/a><\/p>\n

The American constitutional order operates on the understanding that freedom is the absence of artificial constraints on human action – nobody can lock you in your own house, shoot you for saying something unpopular, etc. It quite consciously does not<\/em> entail entitling someone to a particular result – my freedom of movement doesn\u2019t mean I get to break into someone else\u2019s locked door, my freedom of speech doesn\u2019t guarantee that anyone has to listen to me – because its limits are governed by the simple principle, \u201cyour rights end where mine begin.\u201d<\/p>\n

If exercising a certain freedom violates someone else\u2019s freedom, then it\u2019s not actually freedom.<\/p>\n

Then Progressivism came along. Deciding that \u201cformal freedom\u201d was basically worthless if it didn\u2019t give you satisfying outcomes, they set about replacing it with \u201ceffective freedom\u201d – proactive government action to satisfy people materially. Hence, modern liberalism has to have a constraining, regulating hand in everything<\/a>. Respect for new \u201crights\u201d coming at other rights\u2019 expense went out the window in favor of ever-shifting notions of the greater good.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the basis of Sorensen\u2019s \u201cwithout access there is no choice\u201d formulation. Liberals in general, and pro-aborts in particular, love to throw around the word \u201caccess\u201d because it frames the stakes in such a deceptive way. Talk of \u201cblocking access\u201d makes people think of somebody actively erecting tangible constraints, like barricades around a building or laws prohibiting the sale of a certain product.<\/p>\n

But notice that none of the \u201churdles\u201d Sorensen lists are actual barricades or legal penalties. They\u2019re merely inconvenient (and often exaggerated<\/a>) circumstances either that are nobody\u2019s fault, or that the abortion-seeker\u2019s own actions have put her in. If they\u2019re \u201cinjustices\u201d that society owes her relief from, then that means taking from and controlling more people to make it happen – taxpayer funding of abortion, mandatory abortion leave from work, public subsidies for transportation and hotels, you name it. If pro-aborts haven\u2019t thought of demanding it<\/a> yet, it\u2019s only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

To appreciate the flaw in this approach, just imagine if we tried to claim the same sort of \u201caccess\u201d to another right – like, say, the right to bear arms, which, unlike abortion<\/a>, the Constitution actually mentions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Can I get taxpayers to help me afford the gun and ammo I think I need to protect my family? Can I sue if I think my state\u2019s gun permit requirements are too burdensome, or seem \u201cdesigned to make me ashamed of my decision\u201d? Can I pass laws forcing private businesses and\/or residences to let me carry on their property, if I feel they\u2019re denying me \u201caccess\u201d to my means of self-defense?<\/p>\n

Good luck finding any pro-abort who would agree to any of that.<\/p>\n

Also, good luck finding many gun advocates<\/em> who would endorse it. Whereas talk of \u201creproductive rights\u201d is typically empty cover for pro-aborts\u2019 insatiable greed, conservatives generally respect the fact that even the rights we cherish have to be exercised within a framework that doesn\u2019t trample on the rights of others.<\/p>\n

Of course, pro-aborts would skip any such discussion of rights by indignantly pointing out that guns can kill people.<\/p>\n

Unlike abortion, apparently. Reading solely Sorensen\u2019s comic, you wouldn\u2019t be able to say what abortion does at all. Maybe it transplants babies into knapsacks that are carried away by storks? Undoes conception via time travel? Anything but acknowledging that there\u2019s someone in each of these \u201csafe and legal medical procedures\u201d for whom it\u2019s not safe at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey must think we\u2019re stupid,\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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