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Pro-life conservatives should be vegan if they want to be morally consistent.
US conservatives have no hope of being morally consistent on that. The problem is they are not actually #proLife in the slightest (apart from abortion). To be clear, in the US context we are talking about a group that:
opposes gun control
opposes welfare
opposes immigration and pushes xenophobic border control
opposes public healthcare
opposes social security
opposes environmental regulation
denies climate change (thus opposes actions to mitigate animal extinction and save human lives)
opposed masks & vaccinations during a pandemic
opposes worker’s rights (min. wage)
endorses Citizens United (thus giving corporations an upper hand over human beings)
generally supports the military industrial complex and weapons production
endorses factory farming and meat consumption
You cannot have those positions that are antithetical to life and call yourself “pro-life”. If you are in the above group but also oppose abortion, then you are simply pro-forced-birth. So flipping a conservative on the last bullet is negligible in an effort to get pro-life consistency. They would have at least ~10 more positions to flip on before they could assert pro-life consistency.
US conservatives have no hope of being morally consistent on that. The problem is they are not actually #proLife in the slightest (apart from abortion). To be clear, in the US context we are talking about a group that:
You cannot have those positions that are antithetical to life and call yourself “pro-life”. If you are in the above group but also oppose abortion, then you are simply pro-forced-birth. So flipping a conservative on the last bullet is negligible in an effort to get pro-life consistency. They would have at least ~10 more positions to flip on before they could assert pro-life consistency.