[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.

[Mr. Silverback]

Read the most important part again, skippy:

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.