• SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s no inherent contradiction between opposing abortion and believing that current levels of government support for parents are too high.

    But we (and they) know that reducing government support for pregnant women increases the number of abortions.

    So they profess to wanting to “save lives” by ending abortions, while doing something that increases rhe number of abortions.

    How exactly is that not hypocrasy?

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      1 year ago

      It’s not hypocrisy in the same way that the Pope’s opposition to both birth control and abortion isn’t hypocrisy: the ends don’t justify the means. I assume you think of government support for pregnant women as a good thing, but a lot of conservatives appear to disagree with you. To them, abortion is bad, government “handouts” are bad, and even if abortion is worse than handouts, doing a bad thing to prevent an even worse thing is wrong.

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        It’s not hypocrisy in the same way that the Pope’s opposition to both birth control and abortion isn’t hypocrisy

        That is also hypocrisy, thanks for another great example.

        I assume you think of government support for pregnant women as a good thing

        That is literally what the government is for, to support its citizens, yes.

        but a lot of conservatives appear to disagree with you.

        They also disagree with climate change and the earth being more than 6000 years old. Doesn’t make them right, or any less hypocritical.