I don’t know about y’all, but when someone starts yapping about “freedom” and “liberty,” I brace myself for an avalanche of stupid. It’s not that freedom and liberty aren’t perfectly wonderful concepts that I personally enjoy very much — it’s that hard-right jackholes have been humping those words for so long that the terms are redolent of conservaturd ball sweat. And that’s gross!
Well, it looks like reproductive healthcare supporters stole a page from the Frank Luntz playbook and have rebranded pro-choice advocacy as pro-freedom work. The forced-birth crowd isn’t taking it well, as noted on Bluesky with reference to a recent WSJ article:
The forced-birthers stole the federal right to reproductive freedom from half this nation’s citizens, so we’re taking back the word “freedom.” Get over it, talibangelicals. Or die mad. Either one works for me.
Open thread!