{"id":2347,"date":"2008-11-15T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/11\/abortion-and-slavery-parallel\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T14:55:00","slug":"abortion-and-slavery-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/11\/abortion-and-slavery-parallel.html","title":{"rendered":"Abortion and Slavery parallel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Cardinal George has drawn a parallel between slavery and abortion here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Slave owners once argued that they had the right to choose to own slaves or not. The federal government, they argued, should not only allow them to choose, but should enshrine in law their \u2018freedom of choice.\u2019 The government did this in the Dred Scott decision\u2013deciding that the federal government had no power to take away the choice of individuals to own slaves.<\/div>\n
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Then in 1865 the government changed its mind, and in the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and in the fourteenth guaranteed citizenship regardless of race.<\/div>\n
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There must have been plenty of people back then who said, \u201cI\u2019m personally against slavery, but I think it is up to the individual.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Let\u2019s be clear. Americans in the 1850s who were \u2018pro choice\u2019 were actually pro slavery.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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By not being opposed to evil you endorse evil. Likewise those who say, \u201cNobody is pro abortion. We\u2019re just pro choice\u201d are guilty of self deception. They are indeed pro abortion\u2013just as much as the pro choice lobby for slavery was in favor of slavery. If they really were against abortion they would work to get rid of it\u2013even if that meant denying slave owners their \u2018freedom of choice.\u2019<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cardinal George has drawn a parallel between slavery and abortion here. Slave owners once argued that they had the right to choose to own slaves or not. 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