Comments on: Slavery and Abortion: Moral Relatives http://lillieammann.com/2007/04/28/slavery-and-abortion-moral-relatives/ A Writer's Words, An Editor's Eye Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:57:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Another Year, Another Million and a Half Dead Babies : Lillie Ammann, Writer & Editor http://lillieammann.com/2007/04/28/slavery-and-abortion-moral-relatives/comment-page-1/#comment-48291 Another Year, Another Million and a Half Dead Babies : Lillie Ammann, Writer & Editor Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:45:59 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/?p=149#comment-48291 [...] have in the past compared abortion to slavery. Recently I wrote in a book review at Goodreads for Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story: We [...] [...] have in the past compared abortion to slavery. Recently I wrote in a book review at Goodreads for Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story: We [...]

]]> By: A Thirty-Six Year Tragedy : Lillie Ammann, Writer & Editor http://lillieammann.com/2007/04/28/slavery-and-abortion-moral-relatives/comment-page-1/#comment-23410 A Thirty-Six Year Tragedy : Lillie Ammann, Writer & Editor Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:59:50 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/?p=149#comment-23410 [...] written about the sanctity of life in The Most Basic Human Right: Life and Slavery and Abortion: Moral Relatives. In the post In Memory of 40 Million Aborted Babies, I linked to this powerful message: Think of [...] [...] written about the sanctity of life in The Most Basic Human Right: Life and Slavery and Abortion: Moral Relatives. In the post In Memory of 40 Million Aborted Babies, I linked to this powerful message: Think of [...]

]]> By: Lillie http://lillieammann.com/2007/04/28/slavery-and-abortion-moral-relatives/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Lillie Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:07:05 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/?p=149#comment-287 Ronni, Thank you for standing up for the unborn and for morality. Ronni,
Thank you for standing up for the unborn and for morality.

]]> By: Ronni http://lillieammann.com/2007/04/28/slavery-and-abortion-moral-relatives/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Ronni Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:58:14 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/?p=149#comment-286 Easily refuted. Proposition 1: Abortion is not slavery. Objection: This is a red herring. Arguments for abortion were being likened to arguments for slavery. No one was saying that abortion is slavery. Proposition 2: Prohibition of abortion is sexual slavery Objection: Slavery is the condition whereby a human being is owned as the explicit property of another. Sexual slavery would then be the condition whereby the purpose of ownership is for sexual reasons. The prohibition of slavery, on the other hand, would result in the law obligating a pregnant woman to take all reasonable measures to give birth to her child, somewhat like parents are lawfully obligated to take all reasonable measures to take care of their children. I will concede that this is an infringement on the pregnant woman's right to the pursuit of happiness and, at least for 9 monhts, a limited infringement on her right to liberty. However, neither of these trumps the right to life of the human being she carries inside her. Of course, you could argue that what she carries inside her, although it's a human being, is not really a person and therefore does not have the right to life but then...you'd just be proving the fact that the core point in the pro-choice argument is the same one that justifies slavery. Easily refuted.

Proposition 1: Abortion is not slavery.
Objection: This is a red herring. Arguments for abortion were being likened to arguments for slavery. No one was saying that abortion is slavery.

Proposition 2: Prohibition of abortion is sexual slavery
Objection: Slavery is the condition whereby a human being is owned as the explicit property of another. Sexual slavery would then be the condition whereby the purpose of ownership is for sexual reasons.

The prohibition of slavery, on the other hand, would result in the law obligating a pregnant woman to take all reasonable measures to give birth to her child, somewhat like parents are lawfully obligated to take all reasonable measures to take care of their children.

I will concede that this is an infringement on the pregnant woman’s right to the pursuit of happiness and, at least for 9 monhts, a limited infringement on her right to liberty. However, neither of these trumps the right to life of the human being she carries inside her.

Of course, you could argue that what she carries inside her, although it’s a human being, is not really a person and therefore does not have the right to life but then…you’d just be proving the fact that the core point in the pro-choice argument is the same one that justifies slavery.

]]> By: A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye » Blog Archive » The Most Basic Human Right: Life http://lillieammann.com/2007/04/28/slavery-and-abortion-moral-relatives/comment-page-1/#comment-285 A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye » Blog Archive » The Most Basic Human Right: Life Thu, 15 May 2008 11:27:58 +0000 http://lillieammann.com/blog/?p=149#comment-285 [...] wrote in an earlier post that slavery and abortion are moral relatives. My guess is that abortion has killed more black Americans than slavery did, though slavery [...] [...] wrote in an earlier post that slavery and abortion are moral relatives. My guess is that abortion has killed more black Americans than slavery did, though slavery [...]

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