USA – Is There Any Situation You Can’t Put “in the Womb”?

Is There Any Situation You Can’t Put “in the Womb”?
The catchphrase that turns any topic into an anti-abortion slogan.

By Christina Cauterucci
Sept 27, 2019

Early this morning, the Washington Examiner published an essay about abortion and Greta Thunberg. What does one have to do with the other? Glad you asked! According to the headline, “Climate change activists want to save future generations, except in the womb.”

The phrasing was familiar. To anti-abortion advocates, no issue can be more important than their preferred cause. And so, whatever topic may be currently dominating political conversation, they’ve discovered they can seize on it and spin it back toward their preferred argument, simply by adding “except in the womb.” No matter how righteous a progressive cause may sound, a certain segment of the right knows it as self-evident moral hypocrisy, once it’s been enfolded in the all-encompassing womb.

Continued: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/except-in-the-womb-anti-abortion-climate.html