Thread by @emrazz

If you struggle with properly framing pro-choice arguments, mentally replace “abortion” with “constitutional right.” It will help.

Here’s the key: when articulating your stance, switch back.

Abortion isn’t a bad word. Stigmatization weakens your position. Don’t. You’re right.

Example:

A government ban on abortions is wrong.

A government ban on constitutional rights is wrong.

A government ban on abortions is wrong.

When framing responses to antichoice rhetoric:

1) You do not need to prove things that are objectively true or disprove things that are objectively false.

2) Pregnancy does not modify or reduce individual rights under the constitution.

3) Facts trump ad hominem.

4) the reasons underlying a constitutional exercise of individual rights are irrelevant.

5) hyperbole signals lack of foundation.

6) abortion bans are a restriction, not a protection.

7) abortion bans don’t save lives, but they do cause deaths.

There’s a difference between being passionate, or even angry, and getting sucked in.

Bad faith actors with low intellect arguments will mock you for being angry. Let them. You should be angry. They are arguing against your rights. Fuck them.

Importantly, though, that doesn’t make garbage arguments worth addressing. Don’t get led down a path where you find yourself doing homework. Don’t allow backtracking. Don’t allow logical inconsistencies - and there will be inconsistencies.

Arguing true things is easy. Do that.