Statistically speaking, it takes three years to reach a threshold of "millions" of abortions in the US (CDC). And the number of abortions has been declining.
They don't "slaughter children." They perform legal abortions.
I'm sure the landed class of low country South Carolina in the early 1800's didn't "have slaves." I am sure that according to them, they simply owned legal chattel.
Sometimes the law allows things that are morally wrong.
It's politically expedient for both sides to use PP as a football. My disgust with the PP videos is that they actually show the reality that we are killing little people, as evidenced by the organs they harvest. Yet there is a large percentage of our population that is simply okay with that. We are blind as a nation in a very similar way to how we were blind to slavery. We will look back with great sadness on this atrocity.
I don't really see how Democrats are using PP itself as political expedience. More like they're using the GOP effort to defund PP - something Dems argue will actually likely increase abortions since a lot of the money that is taken away would be that money going towards contraceptive services - to point out that the GOP doesn't give a shit about women.
Slavery is a completely different topic than abortion IMO. Slavery dealt with the objective fact that a human was owned by another human and was rooted in a long-standing treatment of certain classss of individuals as property for economic gain. The dispute over abortion is over the subjective (potentially objective in medical terms although likely to still be dismissed by some who eschew scientific research on a variety of other topics - climate change, evolution) belief that fetuses up to a certain point are not humans and cannot feel pain, compounded by the autonomy of a woman to control her own body. There was no dispute that slaves were autonomous individuals on their own (medically or socially), just a debate over whether or not there was a god-given right for whites and the ruling class to "look out" for slaves for "their own good."
There is a medical debate over fetus v. person as well as a debate over a woman's autonomy - two additional layers that didn't exist in the slavery debate.
It's politically expedient for both sides to use PP as a football. My disgust with the PP videos is that they actually show the reality that we are killing little people, as evidenced by the organs they harvest. Yet there is a large percentage of our population that is simply okay with that. We are blind as a nation in a very similar way to how we were blind to slavery. We will look back with great sadness on this atrocity.
Which side of that debate is the Welfare State on in 2015?
It's politically expedient for both sides to use PP as a football. My disgust with the PP videos is that they actually show the reality that we are killing little people, as evidenced by the organs they harvest. Yet there is a large percentage of our population that is simply okay with that. We are blind as a nation in a very similar way to how we were blind to slavery. We will look back with great sadness on this atrocity.
It's politically expedient for both sides to use PP as a football. My disgust with the PP videos is that they actually show the reality that we are killing little people, as evidenced by the organs they harvest. Yet there is a large percentage of our population that is simply okay with that. We are blind as a nation in a very similar way to how we were blind to slavery. We will look back with great sadness on this atrocity.
The "pro-birth" party weighs in. Please, continue with your comparison of suffering living children to aborted fetuses.No double standard here. Keep moving along. No reason to mention the double homicide charge if you kill a pregnant woman. It is just a parasite, not a human.