[FITZ]

The modern slaveholders are the anti-abortion zealots who want to maintain pregnant women in bondage until they deliver a baby.

I actually know women who had an abortion and regret it, I've never met a woman who decided to let their baby live and regretted that ---in fact they seem horrified that they might have considered abortion at all. How can motherhood really be compared with slavery?

[ravinson]

I actually know women who had an abortion and regret it

And there were slaves who regretted abolition too, but that didn't justify a continuation of slavery.

I've never met a woman who decided to let their baby live and regretted that

Then you've probably never met any women whose children ended up in prison, because that's where most of the unwanted offspring end up.

How can motherhood really be compared with slavery?

I didn't compare motherhood to slavery, I compared forced motherhood to slavery. Similarly, I wouldn't compare sexual intercourse to slavery, but I would compare rape to slavery.