Actually, there are similarities between a system that considers human beings as property, and another which treats human life as an inconvenience.
Very interesting thread. Thanks for posting.
Even the village idiot has figured out by now that among blacks the issue of slavery is raised every time a black wants something, be what is wanted good, bad or indifferent.
Abortion is worse than slavery. It’s only aim is the murder of a helpless human being. Slavery steals liberty. Abortion steals life.
“Comparing abortion to slavery certainly raises major concerns,” Hilary Shelton, director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP, told HuffPost in an interview. “Women are not forced to have abortions the way they were in servitude.”
I beg to differ. A lot of women, so many young women especially, are actually forced into killing their baby.
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It must be recognized that your model was never one of realized perfection, but of ceaseless aspiration. From the outset, for example, America denied the African slave his freedom and human dignity. But in time you righted that wrong, albeit at an incalculable cost in human suffering and loss of life...
America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships...
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign...