“I have never, do not currently and never will support slavery...what is even the point of asking that?”
I didn’t ask that. If you reread my comment I never asked if YOU supported slavery. I only asked if you thought slavery was a “fringe” issue in the early 1800s. If you think I am asking if you support slavery, then you obviously aren’t following my line of argument very carefully.
Nobody supports slavery nowadays, because the faction that supported slavery was permanently defeated and banished from polite society. As one of the factions in the abortion debate eventually must be as well. The only questions are which faction will lose, how long it will take for that to happen, and how much disruption our society will have to face before the inevitable resolution of the conflict.
“Look, we are getting creamed right now...use this energy towards the other side.”
I’m capable of having a friendly discussion and also opposing my political enemies too. I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
You believe that you are making a point but you are not. Slavery was never seen as a fringe issue...we fought a civil war over it...why are you asking me if I think it was a fringe issue?
And the issue is Boogeyman that slavery took away people’s freedom and many young women see abortion as a right that has been taken away...whether you agree with it or not...we can no longer argue that the left are the authoritarian ones as our side has “taken away (or sent to the states)” a right they took for granted.