Perhaps no issue highlights the Democratic Party’s hypocrisy than its pro-freedom posturing when it comes to abortion while attempting to ban or regulate just about everything else in existence.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) highlighted this on Wednesday when she posted a bumper sticker-level pro-abortion argument on X. “If you don’t support abortion, don’t get one,” Duckworth posted, offering what she likely assumed was a slam-dunk argument when in reality she airballed a shot into the 10th row.
As intellectually imposing as this grade-school-level argument is, Duckworth and her Democratic colleagues would not apply it to just about anything else. Imagine for a second how Duckworth or any Democratic senator would respond to a Republican arguing, “If you don’t like AR-15s, don’t buy one,” and you can see how ridiculous it is that Duckworth thought this was worth arguing.
“But assault weapons kill people,” you may hear in response from people blissfully unaware of what abortion does. Even before you consider that all rifles kill fewer than 400 people in a given year compared to nearly 1 million abortions nationally in an average year, the reality is that buying or owning an AR-15 (or any so-called assault weapon) does not result in a death, which is what every abortion is designed to do. An abortion is considered a failure if there isn’t one fewer living being in the room by the time it is done. Duckworth is defending the more lethal position here.
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But this doesn’t just stop with guns. “If you don’t like gas-powered cars, don’t buy one” or “If you don’t like gas stoves, don’t buy one” are equally applicable, given that Democrats are pushing to ban both. “If you don’t like religious businesses, don’t shop at one” could also apply to Democrats trying to destroy a Christian baker personally and professionally. The Democratic Party defaults to banning, regulating, or taking legal action against anything and everything that Democratic politicians or activists view as even a mild inconvenience.
Duckworth has no credibility to assert that anyone else minds his own business on abortion, especially with the number of lives at stake on the issue. She or almost any other Democratic politician would not indulge this argument being made on any other less lethal issue, even if the person making the argument could offer something more intelligent than parroting a bumper sticker someone saw in traffic.