Slavery, Abolition, and Lessons for the Pro-life Movement

[Hildebrand]

Philip P:

I think that if there were less abortions (I mean a lot less, like less than a quarter of the current rate), there would be less objection to overturning RVW as it would tend to be seen as a mostly superfluous law.

These are all hypotheticals, but I disagree. The “mainstream” supporters of abortion use the decreasing numbers of abortions as reasons to keep abortion legal. Arguing that we must all seek to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare”.

If you do polling on this, I would not be surprised if a majority of Americans want abortion to remain legal and also would like it to be rare. Most Americans tolerate abortion going on in the millions every year. What makes you think they will be less tolerant of abortion if the number drops to the 10s of thousands?

 

[legeorge]

Philip P:

How nice would it be to walk down a Manhattan sidewalk and see a big ad for an agency providing diapers and baby formula, for instance, instead of the latest blow-em-up movie ad on the side of the bus.

Now that sounds like a winner of an idea!! Too bad we can’t get the yoohoos in Hollywood to fund some advertising for something useful! Do you know any rich pro-lifers? Cause all the ones I know are poor like me. We have trouble raising money to keep one billboard up. Oh well, our constant presence will have to do for now.

 

[Ani_Ibi]

A national boycott of companies who donate to pro-abortion organizations and politicians.

 

[Mot_Juste]

The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life among the Lowly was credited as doing a lot to galvanize public opinion in the North against slavery. Abraham Lincoln characterized the author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, as “the little lady who made this big war.”

Could something like that work today? Some sort of artistic endeavour that would make the uninterested middle wake up and take a stand? The audience would not be the committed partisans on either side of the issue but the (I suspect) majority who aren’t involved, don’t want to take sides, and have the position of “I wouldn’t have one, wouldn’t want my daughter to have one, but I’m not going to have the government tell other people what they can do.”

–Bill

 

[vern_humphrey]

Mot Juste:

The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life among the Lowly was credited as doing a lot to galvanize public opinion in the North against slavery. Abraham Lincoln characterized the author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, as “the little lady who made this big war.”

Could something like that work today? Some sort of artistic endeavour that would make the uninterested middle wake up and take a stand? The audience would not be the committed partisans on either side of the issue but the (I suspect) majority who aren’t involved, don’t want to take sides, and have the position of “I wouldn’t have one, wouldn’t want my daughter to have one, but I’m not going to have the government tell other people what they can do.”

–Bill

Unfortunately, the media is under the control of the pro-abortionists, so people only hear the pro-abortion nonsense. When prosecutors seek to obtain evidence of statutory rape from an abotion clinic, only Fox News makes it a story. Nobody else points out that laws allowing minors to get abortions without parental notification PROTECTS rapists.

 

[legeorge]

vern humphrey:

Unfortunately, the media is under the control of the pro-abortionists, so people only hear the pro-abortion nonsense. When prosecutors seek to obtain evidence of statutory rape from an abotion clinic, only Fox News makes it a story. Nobody else points out that laws allowing minors to get abortions without parental notification PROTECTS rapists.

Maybe we pro-lifers need our own take on Michael Moore. (only not disgusting )

 

[vern_humphrey]

legeorge:

Maybe we pro-lifers need our own take on Michael Moore. (only not disgusting )

Please! I just had lunch.