{"id":42487,"date":"2020-04-29T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42487"},"modified":"2020-04-29T13:35:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:35:23","slug":"oh-the-irony-is-so-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42487","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the irony is so rich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23prochoice%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hundreds-of-new-hampshire-residents-rallied-outside-the.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42488\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hundreds-of-new-hampshire-residents-rallied-outside-the-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hundreds-of-new-hampshire-residents-rallied-outside-the-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hundreds-of-new-hampshire-residents-rallied-outside-the-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hundreds-of-new-hampshire-residents-rallied-outside-the.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Facebook acquaintance of mine has drawn attention to what he believes is an amazing, rich irony in the dispute by pro-Donald Trump protesters who oppose the government-imposed restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote this: <em>I&#8217;ve recently noticed Trumpers embrace the slogan &#8220;Freedom of choice&#8221;, or &#8220;My Body My Choice&#8221; as seen on a pro-Trump placard. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Set aside the flawed logic in thinking a highly transmissible disease with no vaccine or effective treatment only affects you, but do they not see the irony in eviscerating the reproductive rights of women?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. What do you know about that?<\/p>\n<p>One might argue, I suppose, that there is no direct parallel between the coronavirus restrictions and reproductive rights. Still, when avid <em>anti-choice<\/em> advocates trot out mantras used by their foes, they had better be ready for the blowback they are receiving.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, I need to remind you that the irony travels in the opposite direction, with <em>pro-choice<\/em> advocates seemingly endorsing the restrictions that government imposes as we wage this fight against a killer virus.<\/p>\n<p>Irony is a bitch \u2026 ain&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23prochoice%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook acquaintance of mine has drawn attention to what he believes is an amazing, rich irony in the dispute by pro-Donald Trump protesters who oppose the government-imposed restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. He wrote this: I&#8217;ve recently noticed Trumpers embrace the slogan &#8220;Freedom of choice&#8221;, or &#8220;My Body My Choice&#8221; as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, the irony is so rich<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[9261,3750,9337],"class_list":["post-42487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-pandemic","tag-pro-choice","tag-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42490,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42487\/revisions\/42490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}