The Progressive Case for Pro-Life: Why I Changed My Mind
The Left’s selective science, and why protecting life is the only common-sense position left.
The selective ethics of the Left
by Freddie Alexander, our new culture contributor
One of the strangest things about the left is how selectively they apply their ethical principles.
On Monday, it’s “listen to the science.”
On Tuesday, it’s “every life matters.”
On Wednesday, it’s “how dare you question animal suffering.”
But mention unborn human life and suddenly science is “complicated,” life is “contextual,” and suffering only counts if the being experiencing it can protest on social media. It’s just hypocrisy.
Take animal welfare. I actually agree with a lot of it.
Factory farming is brutal. Causing unnecessary suffering to sentient creatures is morally wrong. Fine.
But you can’t argue, straight-faced, that a chicken’s pain demands moral urgency while a developing human life is dismissed as disposable tissue.
You can’t tell me a calf deserves legal protection while a baby weeks away from birth is framed as an inconvenience.
If suffering matters, it matt…
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