I'm always amazed how history repeats itself. The first Pro-Choice movement in the southern United States in the 1840-1850's. The argument was then about the issue of slavery was: I don't own a slave but I don't want to stop another one from owning one. That was exactly the argument by the speaker of the house...after all it was just a black. Same arugument today: I personally don't want an abortion..but I don't want to stop another..after all it's just a fetus. Aboration like slavery is merly a lower of human value. I do believe one day in this country school children will look back in horror and disbelief that many years ago we allowed people to murder children within their mothers womb..as today we look back on slavery in almost disbelief. Some today are just as determined to allow this just as the first pro-choice movement was to allow slavery. Western expansion of slavery was called "PRO-CHOICE"
I'd like to hear your views!
2006-06-11 15:10:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I agree, I never looked at it that way. Also, as Black in America, it shames me to see that other black people don't have the brain capacity to make a connection between two things (slavery/abortion) that are so congruent to one another ...excellent perspective, man!
2006-06-11 15:30:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I don't believe in abortion, not because I'm religious(which I'm not) but because well they have condoms, birth control, and abstinence to prevent it don't they. And there is always adoption. I mean if a woman doesn't want to go through pregnancy then take the steps provided to not get pregnant. Its not rocket science. And I believe there is need for more sex education apparently. And I hate that some people believe that having a child is punishment, some women can't even have one.
2006-06-11 16:17:20 · answer #2 · answered by Cherokee_pride 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the slavery point is a good one, but not from your view. Pro-life is just a way of men making women slaves to childbearing. When you have to go through pregnancy and childbirth and raising that child, then you may speak. Until that time, a WOMAN should have the right to make the decisions about HER own body.
2006-06-11 15:38:54 · answer #3 · answered by lockesmith 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I totally agree!Let's take a step even farther back in history,shall we?
Between 1791 and 1819 ninety percent of the Cherokee's land was ceded. During this time many members of the tribe moved west of the Mississippi.Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, the year gold was discovered in the Cherokee Nation. Once gold was discovered on the Cherokee's land European settlers started holding lotteries for the Cherokee's land for their fellow European settlers. During this time, Cherokees were not allowed to conduct tribal business, make contracts, testify in court against whites, or mine for gold.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The deadline for voluntary removal was in May 23, 1838. At this time fifteen thousand Cherokees were still living on their land. On this day the Georgia Guard headed to the reservation to force the Cherokees off of their land. The Cherokees were split up into three different travel groups. In June 1838, the first group of Cherokees were forced to head west.Many died on the trip because of hunger, exposure and disease. The exact number of deaths is not known, but it is estimated to be over four thousand, which would be over a fifth of the whole tribe.Yes history does repeat ! One only has to remember the words ( genocide or holocost) Extermination of the jews was not the first!
The Rhetoric of Extermination: Scapegoating the Plains Indian in the 19th Century. John Chivington was a steadfast Methodist minister who, instead of preaching in the church, became a colonel during the Civil War. Chivington had refused the position of chaplan that was offered to him and he had asked for a fighting position. Near the end of the Civil War, with no confederate soldiers to fight, Chivington dedicated himself to eliminating the presence of any living American Indian. In the 1860s Chivington had settled down and was living in Denver .adamantly preaching his firm belief that the extermination of all American Indians was the only way to deal with the “Indian Problem.” Let us pray that we won't see history repeat with the illegal immigration issue!
2006-06-11 15:49:46 · answer #4 · answered by Jo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My ancestors were slaves and I think it's a shame that you use this sad story as a political point! There's no possible comparison.
2006-06-11 15:26:04 · answer #5 · answered by fabee 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Way to put a new perspective on it. I agree.
2006-06-11 15:15:57 · answer #6 · answered by Fat Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very well stated opinion.
2006-06-11 15:37:58 · answer #7 · answered by distill80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋