We hear a lot of talk these days about privilege. Privilege is the idea that some social advantage is available to members of only one group and unavailable to everyone else. Most of the claims about privilege are specious, either imaginary or else unavoidable. But there is one kind of privilege emerging that is both real and unnecessary: moral privilege.
The cultural and corporate elites who oppose the Georgia heartbeat bill, which bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, praise themselves for being willing to sacrifice their financial interests in the state for the sake of conscience. But then they threaten Georgia with financial retribution for passing a law in accord with the conscience of Georgians. Whose conscience counts more?
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