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To: E who wrote (590)	9/6/1999 9:32:00 PM
From: c.horn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 6418

Abortion and Slavery<re-edit> Why recall the Civil War? As one South-American historian put it, "those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it." We in the United States must not forget about Slavery - the moral issue over which the Civil War was fought. Every civilized nation should be called to task not to repeat the injustices that led to that war, injustices like our current and flagrant disregard for human life before (and after) birth. U.S. courts once declared Slavery legal, just as our courts assert abortion to be legal. In 1857 (Dred Scott decision) the U.S. Supreme Court decided that human beings of African Decent (Negro Slaves) who had not been explicitly granted rights (their freedom), were not persons, but rather property, and warranted no more protection under the law than that of property. In 1973 (Roe v. Wade), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that human beings of age less than nine months gestation (the unborn) are not persons in the eyes of the law, but rather the property of their mothers to be disposed of at their leisure. In the 19th Century, Americans accepted discrimination on the basis of Race. Now, we do so on the basis of age and place of residence (the womb). In many states, women can still kill the human in their womb up to the time of birth. As John Wilke puts it: "Then, the discrimination was on the basis of skin color. Now, it is on the basis of age and place of residence (living in the womb)." ----------------------------------------------- SLAVERY--------------------------- ABORTION Dred Scott 1857 ------------------Roe vs. Wade 1973 7-2 Decision ---------------------7-2 Decision Black Non-person ----------------- Unborn Non-person Property of Owner------------Property of Owner (Mother) Choose To Buy-Sell-Kill ------- Choose To Keep Or Kill Abolitionists------------------ Pro-lifers Should Not Impose--------------Should Not Impose Morality On Slaveowner---------Morality On Mother Slavery is Legal-------------- Abortion is Legal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In _Dred Scott_, the Court emphasized that a slave in one state is still a slave in any other state, regardless of any state law that prohibits slavery. In 1992 (Casey v. Planned Parenthood), the Supreme Court amended Roe, explicitly reiterating that the unborn were NOT persons under the law. They did permit the states to restrict abortions prior to the age viability of the unborn child. Because of Roe, from 1973 to 1992 no state outlawed even third-trimester abortions. Since Casey, some have. Then again, some states prior to the Civil War outlawed slavery too. The American Civil War was fought over a number of issues, and one of the most compelling moral issues was that of the right of one human being to enslave another, and to have the right to treat that person as property - to rape, sell or kill at their discression. Most northerners who opposed slavery did not really know how bad it was, until the war, when millions of Negro slaves were freed, and able to tell their tales. Few worked for the Confederacy; hundreds of thousands enlisted in the cause of Union and Freedom. Tens of thousands gave their lives and limbs. In the early 19th Century, a large portion of the southern economy was based on slave labor. It didn't pay to kill off the slaves. Most survived to tell their tales of what it was like to be treated as something less-than-human. But today, the unborn are not considered human, so if they are inconvenient or not wanted, we just kill them. Very, very few of the younger abortion victims ever live to tell the tales, and most unborn who survive abortions are far too handicapped to say much about it. But then, even some of the mothers who survive abortions are handicapped to say much about it. It's called Post-Abortion Syndrome. But the Adult survivors have other complications to face as well. And I'd much rather help them, and convince others not to follow their example, than condemn them. So if you find my interests in these issues a bit ironic, I invite you to rethink it. Maybe it is less incompatible than you think.