Did he say that before or after he accepted a ban on the slave trade, knowing that emancipation would take much longer to be adopted and that enacting a ban on the slave trade was a good start towards his eventual goal?
And insisting that only a total abortion ban in Arkansas would be acceptable is even dumber than settling only for total emancipation would be in Parliament in 1807, since not only would a total abortion ban not pass, if somehow it did it immediately would be enjoined by the courts from going into effect and it would be declared unconstitutional soon thereafter.
William Wilberforce was nothing like you, thank God.
-- William Wilberforce“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
Exceptions, ie failure to provide equal protection to all, is what opened the door to abortion on demand in this country, and they are what keeps abortion on demand in place.
You’ve given up the moral, constitutional, and legal arguments against abortion. Therefore you can never possibly end it, any more than a soldier who disarmed and stripped naked could walk into Afghanistan and defeat the Taliban.
Fundamentally, your arguments are purely Utilitarian, not moral, and not Constitutional.
Utilitarianism can never restore the moral basis of our form of government and our claim to liberty.
The bottom line is that the child in the womb is a person, and our Constitution absolutely requires that every person be provided with the equal protection of the laws. The oath of office that every officer of government, in every branch, at every level, must take requires that this be done.
You either stand for that or you don’t. It’s that simple.