In a lot of ways Identity Politics is the simpleton way of dealing with issues.
I think specifically with the issue of being anti-abortion, a lot of Identity Politics supporters are equating the fact that abortion = misogyny and if you are anti-abortion, that is what you are. You want to oppress women and that abortion is a women's only issue.
While this may be true on some level, it doesn't really address the entire issue of why people are anti-abortion. There are plenty of people who don't support abortion based on religious or personal convictions and the IP perspective also fails to address. If a women is anti-abortion, it isn't because of another issue, but rather it is internalized misogyny.
My point is that oftentimes people don't fit into the nice little box that many IPers want to place them in.
We saw some of this come out where being anti-immigration (or even wanting to be restrictive on immigration) is resulting in people being called racists or bigots.
IP tends to boil very complex issues down to simple ones.
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