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England led the way in outlawing the abhorrent institution of slavery. They did so without violence. I was raised to believe blessed are the peacemakers and my primary complaint about Lincoln is that he was anything but a peacemaker.

Too bad, your response to the abortion question was rather lame for anonymous cyberspace. But I will work with it to see if we can break some new ground. Lets us suppose for a moment that the abortion question was returned to the states after Roe V Wade was/ is (dare to dream) overturned.

Some states no doubt will outlaw the procedure all together and some states, no doubt will keep have "moderate" regulations, and some states will have a completely unregulated abortion market (they will wrap themselves in laisez faire language and talk about property rights no doubt.)

Would you favor invading a state, conquering its people subduing the capital and imposing a 'right to life' regime on the state/states?

I told you how I felt about abortion, but I also told you I won't persue your irrelevant tangent. Until you accept the fact that ending slavery by any means was a good thing, this conversation is pointless. The South was never going to change its mind and end slavery bloodlessly.

England led the way in outlawing the abhorrent institution of slavery. They did so without violence. I was raised to believe blessed are the peacemakers and my primary complaint about Lincoln is that he was anything but a peacemaker.

Southerners would never have allowed peaceful elimination of slavery, even with compensation. Even the border states, towards the end of the war when it was obvious that slavery was on its last legs, rejected Lincoln's desperate attempts to provide for gradual, compensated emancipation.

Would you favor invading a state, conquering its people subduing the capital and imposing a 'right to life' regime on the state/states?

Do you believe pro-abortion states under such a scenario have a moral or legal right to secede, expel government officials, and wage war on the Federal government?

The imposition of antislavery regimes on the South was a result of the war the South started, not its cause.

How would you suggest dealing with a state or states that waged war on the Union?