Politics & Power Quote by Michael Aston

There’s a deliberate rhetorical bait-and-switch here: Aston borrows the moral language of progressive politics and turns it back on itself. By calling opposition to abortion “the ultimate liberal cause,” he’s not just stating a belief; he’s trying to rebrand a position commonly coded as conservative into something that can live comfortably inside a liberal self-image. It’s a move that aims less at persuading committed pro-choicers than at inviting moderates and self-identified liberals to feel a certain kind of moral dissonance: if you care about the marginalized, why not this marginalized?

The phrase “those without a voice” is the emotional engine. It’s a familiar activist frame, usually applied to refugees, workers, or abused children. Aston extends it to the unborn to claim the moral high ground and to cast abortion rights as a failure of empathy rather than a complex question of autonomy, health, and law. That’s the subtext: he’s shifting the debate from women’s agency to a rescue narrative, where virtue is measured by who you protect.

As a musician, he’s speaking in the register of conviction, not policy. The blunt “I can’t believe” signals betrayal and disbelief - a fan-to-fan kind of intimacy that plays well in celebrity discourse. The context is a culture where political identity is increasingly aesthetic: “liberal” isn’t just a voting pattern, it’s a moral brand. Aston’s line tries to steal that brand and pin it to a different cause.