The Anti-Choice Movement Is Hijacking Black Lives Matter To Push Its Own Agenda

In the past few years, “black lives matter” — and the subsequent movement around the rallying cry — has elevated criminal justice issues to a dinner-table talking point, in part by simply giving all of America a unified vocabulary. Other groups, however, have taken advantage of that vocabulary to undermine the message of racial justice, spawning spin-off phrases like “All Lives Matter,” “Blue Lives Matter,” and, from anti-abortion groups, “Unborn Lives Matter.”

#UnbornLivesMatter activity spiked last week on Twitter as the rest of the nation grappled with the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five police officers in Dallas, as reported by Amanda Marcotte for Salon.

This phrase has been around for a few years, since almost the beginning of the BLM movement. But last week, activity on the hashtag surged by 1033 percent over the average for the previous four weeks, according to data compiled by the right-wing Patriot Journalist Network.

It’s not the first time the anti-abortion movement has co-opted BLM for its own end....
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/07/12/3797071/anti-abortion-unborn-lives-matter/