[TheDeacon]

It is amazing how much of this discussion was going on 150 years ago.....about slavery and abolition. Remember that SCOTUS ruled that the 'negro' was not human. Remember the violence that abolitionists were responsible for.

I laugh when I hear folks say that 'it is only a fetus'. Look up 'fetus' and see what it means.

Maybe in another 150 years we will think about abortion in the same way that we think about slavery today.

[Heartbreak of Psoriasis]

It is amazing how much of this discussion was going on 150 years ago.....about slavery and abolition. Remember that SCOTUS ruled that the 'negro' was not human. Remember the violence that abolitionists were responsible for.

I absolutely agree with that. The Dred Scott decision is eerily similar to Roe v. Wade. Both were exercises in raw judicial power that twisted the Constitution beyond recognition (although I have to say that of the two Roe was worse). Both decisions placed one class of human beings beyond the protection of the laws and handed them over to another class of human beings to exercise absolutely arbitrary power over them. The foregoing sentence is the very definition of slavery, and it follows that Abortion = Slavery.

Perhaps some day people will remember Hill with the sort of moral ambivalence with which most now view John Brown. Was John Brown a saint of a sinner? Was slavery such a moral abomination that it justified the spilling of blood to resist? If so, then how does the moral outrage of African slavery compare with the millions of abortions legally performed in America since 1973?

I would be most interested in your reply to those questions.

[CalvaryJohn]

Yeah, yeah. John Brown got what was coming to him, too. I admire his cause, but his methods were treasonous. Ditto for Hill. His cause was just. His actions were murder.