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BLM being hijacked by anti-abortionists

 “Black lives matter!”

“Yeah but, abortion. So I guess not all lives, huh?”

This is degrading. And even if we grant that it’s somehow true, interjecting it harms the mentality of the BLM movement. 

So let’s start with that: they interject an issue that is not synonymous with what BLM is about. BLM is about police brutality and it’s excessive, discriminatory use against POC. Abortions are neither about police brutality nor is one single woman having an abortion being excessive about it.

Next, it distracts from the real issue at hand. Now you aren’t thinking about the atrocities that happen to black people by police, you are thinking about “hmm is this true?” It doesn’t really matter if you believe abortion is of equal footing as police brutality or not. The thing is, this isn’t about abortion. This is not an appropriate subject to bring up because by distracting from their issue, you belittle the magnitude of the human rights violation that has occurred to the black community. Which, if you are trying to latch onto, you must feel that they have a legitimate claim. So distracting from it, is pure disrespect for their ideology. 

It entirely reiterates that there is an attempt to special plead for fetuses. You are not interested in equal rights. If you were, you could allow for BLM to be discussed without attempting to coopt it and humiliate it. 

Prolifers frequently will get defensive when you say that if they were prolife, they would be for contraceptives or for food stamps or for all the other things that go with it. How often have I seen them say “we can be interested in other things outside prolife. Prolife just means ending abortion.” And to that, they usually mean that they do care about those things, they just don’t bring it up in their prolife talks. 

So you can clearly, by your own admission, talk about abortion as a stand alone topic, but when it comes to other topics, they aren’t given that decency. 

You know what I think? I think, you don’t actually care about the BLM movement. But rather, you are attempting to humiliate them by saying they can’t agree with that because they don’t care about unborn black lives. Yet in doing so, you point out your own hypocrisy because you, yourself, do not agree with them, you are in fact trying to best their efforts, and then go on to say all lives matter because of the unborn. 

If all lives matter, trying to overshadow the BLM movement with abortion proves that you do not believe that is true. If you cared about the movement, you would allow it it’s space.

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