koshergrl lv. Many Americans defend "choice" by denying that they are "pro-abortion." They assert that they are actually "personally
opposed" to abortion but don't believe they have the right to impose that "choice" on others.
But most people who refuse to. legislate morality on abortion, will rightly outlaw the "choice" to brutalize African Americans. The effort to outlaw abortion, like
the campaign to outlaw racial injustice, isn't merely about personal morality.
It is not merely about what a person does. It is about what a person does to another person.
The government should stay out of people's bedrooms (at least until abortions start being performed there), but government
neutrality on genocide is a myth, whether the victim class is defined in terms of age (as in abortion), race, ethnicity or religion, etc. If the government suddenly withdrew legal protections for African Americans, would the government be "staying out of. race," or would it be taking the side of those who think the lynching of African Americans should be a matter of "personal. choice?"
Such governmental "neutrality" would obviously abandon blacks to renewed genocide (A "Whites Only" Web site asserted on the Internet that John William King, convicted of lynching African American James Bird, Jr. by dragging him to death behind a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas, was guilty only of "animal cruelty," according to Newsweek, March 8, 1999).
Would a person be seizing the moral high ground by saying "I am personally opposed to lynching blacks, I just don't think lynching blacks should be against the law?"
Would the "moderate," progressive position on race be to say "I don' t advocate the lynching of blacks but I do believe in the right to lynch blacks?"
Neither is it "moderate" or progressive to make that argument against unborn children.
Racist "states' rights" advocates, in fact, once embraced the classic "pro-choice" position: They argued that if abolitionists didn't like slavery, their remedy was to not buy blacks.
Like abortion today, the government didn't mandate slavery, it was a. matter of personal "choice."
Unlike abortion today, the government didn't subsidize slavery for whites too poor to buy their own Negroes.
But those who "chose" slavery argued that they had a constitutional right to protect their property.
No "outside agitator" had the right to shove their abolitionist (or integrationist during the "Jim Crow" period) morality down the throats of the planter class or the Ku Klux Klan."
http://www.abortionno.org/pdf/whyabortionisgenocide.pdf
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