Ilhan Omar writes:
So the Republican Party supports forcing women to give birth against their will, but opposes providing childcare, paid leave or healthcare. Got it.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 3, 2022
This is a nonsense argument. The core anti-abortion claim is that unborn children are human beings, and that it is wrong to kill human beings. Whether or not the federal government provides the exact set of social-spending policies a given anti-abortion voter might prefer is entirely irrelevant to their case, which must rise or fall entirely on whether or not an unborn child is worth protecting from being killed. If unborn children are not deserving of such protection, then there’s no need for the state to interfere. If unborn children are worthy of protection, then what the state does in other areas has no bearing on the matter. We wouldn’t say “I just can’t believe you’re against killing five-year-olds but also against taxpayer-funded childcare,” and, if the unborn are equally worthy of our respect then we shouldn’t say it when discussing them, either.