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You do measure evil by degree though. It is our actions that reveal how we prioritize our values. If 40,000,000 toddlers were killed in the U.S. would you just be sitting at your computer bitching about it? I think not. Abortion is morally evil, yet except for a tiny tiny fraction of people, we sure don't treat it the same way as we do the taking of the life of a toddler.

Again, it isn't a false scenario. You see a toddler about to be killed, and you try to prevent it. You know there are a dozen abortions being performed down the street and you do what? I am indicting myself here as well. We are guilty.

If abortion truly is exactly the moral equivalent of taking a toddler's life, we are all as guilty, by our inaction.

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All you're doing is using a false scenario - choosing between the life of the unborn and a toddler and trying to rationalize why you would chose the life of a toddler over an infant or the unborn. At the moment, you are NOT in that situation where you must make a choice and it is doubtful that you ever will be. So it is a FALSE scenario and a false dilemma.

Neither situation is acceptable. One is not of lessor value that another. By allowing abortion the law is stating that the unborn is NOT as important as a toddler. The abortionists have already made that decision for you.

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"If abortion truly is exactly the moral equivalent of taking a toddler's life, we are all as guilty, by our inaction."

If one does nothing then the person is guilty of doing nothing. Others do what they can either financially or through prayer etc.. so to broad brush folks as you are doing is not accurate either.