Which will go down in history as America's greatest shame: legalized abortion or legalized slavery?

Question

Both are incredibly shameful and hypocritical:
Everyone who supported slavery was free.
Everyone who supports abortion was born.

Answer 1

Legalized abortion will be our greatest shame in the land of the free and home of the brave because it is ongoing. Slavery was abolished and is no longer legal, but killing your unborn child is perfectly O.K. anywhere up to and including delivery as in the "Partial Birth Abortion." That fully developed, perfect child is inches from breathing their first breath when they are mercilessly killed by a doctor who agreed to uphold the Hippocratic Oath stating, "First do no harm."

Answer 2

Though I do not agree with abortion and see it as a means to shun the consequence of having sex off, slavery is certainly the pink elephant in the middle of the room.

The fact that it was claimed by some in the south that God delivered an inferior race to his chosen people, the fact that the issue kept being pushed to the next generation until Civil War broke out (not unlike today with civil rights), and the fact that at one point slavery was a constitutionally protected right makes slavery the winner by far.

An argument can be made for whether or not a fetus is a human being. The slaves WERE human beings and no person ever should be subjected to treatment of that kind.

Answer 3

If the numbers of people who died under both per year were the same, and I don't know that, I would have to say that slavery was worse because it went on for close to 200 years and uncounted thousands died that were never accounted for.
We have rough ideas about the number of abortions each year, but abortion has only been legal in America since 1971. The number of illegal abortions before that are pretty shady too.
On the whole, I would say slavery.

Answer 4

you purchased it bass -ackwards If a lady is denied the alternative to abort a baby that she would not want and/or can't have adequate money then that lady will develop right into a slave to her little ones. The family contributors poverty formula has continually been that little ones =Poverty and a upward push in C continually resulted in strengthen in P traditionally households have more advantageous their wealth with the help of reducing the quantity of non helpful little ones residing lower than their roof regularly households ought to shop the able bodied sons who ought to provide a cheap source of not difficulty-free paintings for the family contributors corporation aka the 7-eleven kind Apprecentice out the sons who couldn't make contributions to the family contributors corporation Marry off their youthful daughters to older adult men who ought to seem after them. in the present day an difficulty-free abortion is used to unravel the complicated family contributors wealth complications of yet another age.

Answer 5

Slavery. And nobody *supports* abortion, they support a person's right to choose whether or not they want to have an abortion. If people supported abortion, nobody would ever be born

Answer 6

Abortion.

Answer 7

if i have to pick between the two.... slavery, hands down. don't really want to get into an abortion debate with me saying that i believe in a woman's right to choose....if it's a moral issue then let the woman be judged when she meets her maker....embryo vs fetus....nope really don't want to get into all of that today.

can't imagine anyone saying that abortion is a greater shame than slavery. if you're pro life then the act of slavery takes away from your argument. here's an idea, instead of women having abortions, take the babies, raise them, feed them, give them rags to wear and make them present day slaves. see how far you get with that one.

you can't justify taking someone against their will and making them do something that they don't want to do. i think these days that would be a felony.

Answer 8

How about genocide? The buffalo population was exterminated for the express purpose of destroying the food chain of the American Nations after the peace treaty was ratified and before the resultant Indian wars in the 19th century.

Answer 9

Slavery, no contest. Don't ever make the assumption that abortion is an easy choice to make. It is just as difficult as deciding whether to turn somebodys life support machine off.

Answer 10

I think abortion. Slavery was brutal, unethical, and unexcusable. According to many(and I agree) slaveholders were ignorant and unenlightened.

However, in this 21st century, the greatest advocates for abortion are supposedly "enlightened". They are progressive. They are the ones who will deliver us from all of the nonsense of the past like morality, decency, and religion.

Also, many slaves were freed. I don't know of any aborted babies that have been freed in this life. They have gone to heaven though. Won't it be interesting to meet them in heaven.