With all due respect, you're sidestepping. Please answer the contentions and address the analogy developed in post #319 and the last paragraph in #353.
Oh, sorry -- I'm at work, posting around building some web tools. Sometimes I miss answering every point.
The analogy to slavery?
Specificaly, if I understand you, you're asking do I believe that every human being in America should have the legal protection from being killed in all instances, I think?
To me, the answer is not in all circumstances. One example that would be relevant here I believe you might agree with would be abortion when the life of the mother is at stake.
To me, if the mother decides that she for whatever reason can not care for and raise her baby, it should be her right to terminate it before live birth.
Once born, I can see that the baby then gains the protections. But before it's born, it's in a state that I believe makes terminating it, ending it's life, not to be a very big deal at all.
Certainly, adoption is a better option in most cases. But for whatever reasons, there seem to be many folks who will not choose this. So for those people, the mothers who feel they can not or will not raise the baby properly and will not choose adoption -- abortion is probably a good option in many cases. The choice should be up to the mother.