The end of abortion (will not be pretty)

LifeSiteNews ^ | 1-20-12 | Kristen Walker

[ReformationFan]

I’ve been reading a fascinating book by economist, Stanford University professor, and Hoover Institute Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell called Black Rednecks & White Liberals. In an essay titled “The Real History of Slavery,” Sowell analyzes the complex reasons why most Americans who were morally opposed to slavery did not side with the radical abolitionists. A whole host of reasons stopped good men — including Washington and Jefferson — from supporting any endeavor to simply declare slaves free and release them into the wide world, and foremost among these concerns was the well-being of the slaves themselves.

Thomas Sowell knows things you will never know. Sowell quotes Edmund Burke, the 18th century British philosopher and opponent of the slave trade.

… Burke put the problem, as he put so many other problems, in the context of the inherent constraints of circumstances. While seeing slavery as “an incurable evil,” Burke was concerned with what would happen to the slaves themselves after they were freed, as well as the implications of their freedom for the society around them.

The “minds of men being crippled” by slavery, Burke said, “we must precede the donation of freedom” by developing in the enslaved people the capacity to function as responsible members of a free society…

[N]owhere did Burke view this is an abstract question without considering the social context and the consequences and dangers of that context.

Slavery is almost as old as humanity, and as widespread as the globe. The Islamic world was notorious for its slave trade. Slavs were notoriously slaves. In fact the word “slave” comes from slav. Arabs and North Africans enslaved Europeans, Europeans enslaved other Europeans, Africans enslaved other Africans. Everyone enslaved someone.

[sleddogs]

It’s not pretty now! In fact it’s horrifying.

[doc1019]

Amen

[campaignPete R-CT]

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[TEXOKIE]

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[glock rocks]

Rebellion is brewing!!

We should rebuild the grassroots conservative movement. From the Reagan Revolution of 1980 through the Contract with America in 1994, it was this movement from outside Washington that carried us to the first center-right majority governing coalition in more than 60 years.

The problem has not been with conservatism or with our voters.

The problem has been with Republican leaders who forgot who elected them and what values their supporters expected to see implemented in Washington.

— Newt Gingrich, 11-13-2006

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[FR Kids]

Does anyone have ideas or plans for posting any articles or threads for "Walk For Life" and "Walk For Life - West Coast". Maybe one nationwide thread would be enough.

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Yesturday, Friday, Walter B. Hoye II, with Issues4Life Foundation, led a "Standing Up 4Life Rally and Walk" in Oakland, California.

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Issues4life Foundation Issues4Life.org

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TODAY SATURDAY:   Walk For Life - West Coast   San Francisco, CA NOTE NEW LOCATION, TIME AND ROUTE!
DATE: January 21, 2012 NEW PLACE: Civic Center Plaza San Francisco (Polk Street across from City Hall)
Info Fair: 11:00 am Silent No More talks: 11:00 a.m. NEW RALLY TIME: 12:30 to 1:30 pm NEW WALK: 1:30 pm Market Street to Justin Herman Plaza To find a bus with available seating from your area, click here. Latest email blast (Full details and Map of NEW Route) Join the YOUTH at the Walk!     WalkForLifeWC.com Walk For Life - West Coast WalkForLifeWC.com Walk For Life - West Coast - San Francisco, CA
Latest email blast (Full details and Map of NEW Route) - Walk is 1.8 miles ...This is a Walk for everyone... This year we start in the center of San Francisco — in the Civic Center Plaza in front of San Francisco City Hall. Our message starts here! We’ll fill the plaza with old and young, strollers and wheelchairs and everybody in between. The Rally will start at 12:30 pm, but come earlier as the Info Faire will be open at 11:00 am. There are two playgrounds right on the plaza for the kids to enjoy. We will walk down Market Street at 1:30 pm. We will fill the length and width of the street. It will be an amazing sight, and an even more important statement to San Francisco and to the West Coast! There are no scheduled events after the Walk which will end at Justin Herman Plaza at the Embarcadero. The Walk from Civic Center Plaza to Justin Herman Plaza (end of Market Street) is 1.8 miles. For those coming on out of town buses, please contact your bus captains for instructions. We are looking forward to having you join us! * RESOURCES * Are You Hurting? (?)-Link? PREGNANT? Need to make a Decision? Understanding the Issue (?)-Link? Some thought-provoking quotes about Abortion

Recovery Begins When You Are Ready ARIN = http://www.arininc.org

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[FR Kids]

  Today, Saturday January 21, 2012
  Walk For Life - West Coast - San Francisco, CA

 

            WalkForLifeWC.com

       

[Jim Noble]

I think the point was, ending abortion is going to require winning the hearts and minds of people that the pro-life activists regards as, and call by that name, filthy murderers.

This will require some development of doctrine.

[wagglebee]

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[exDemMom]

You probably hear anti-lifers throw out this rhetorical question all the time: “What are we supposed to do with all those new babies?” I usually reply with, “It’s a complicated problem, but I know what the answer isn’t: kill them in the womb.”

I hate that straw man argument.

Most abortions take place as a primary means of birth control. If abortion were not legal, most of those "unwanted" pregnancies would not happen in the first place.