[Mr. Silverback]

When you say "baby" do you mean a fetus or a baby that has actually been born? You may not see a distinction but the law does and always has.

Abortion was illegal (with criminal liability attached for those performing them) in every state until the 1960's. Up until then, the law made no distinction between a baby in the womb and a baby outside the womb.

But even if that were true, the law once made a distinction that allowed you to own an African. The exact procedure by which some evil bag of garbage in a black robe determines it should be legal to rip a small child limb from limb has no more bearing on this discussion than the evil that allowed people to employ Africans as automatic cotton-harvesting machines.

[jude24]

Abortion was illegal (with criminal liability attached for those performing them) in every state until the 1960's. Up until then, the law made no distinction between a baby in the womb and a baby outside the womb.

That actually was't true until the post-civil war era; and even then most statutes differentiated between early-term and late-term abortions.

[scratcher]

Well done!

[JeffAtlanta]

Abortion was illegal (with criminal liability attached for those performing them) in every state until the 1960's. Up until then, the law made no distinction between a baby in the womb and a baby outside the womb.

If the law made no distinction between a baby in the womb and a baby outside the womb then why was there the need for anti-abortion laws?

If the law treated them the same then the babies would be covered under existing homicide laws.