November 5, 2015 (LiveActionNews) — Some arguments used today against the pro-life movement echo the arguments used in the 19th century against the abolition movement. Here’s a list of four:

Argument #1

Today: Pro-lifers are obsessed with outlawing abortion, but they don’t demonstrate any concern for children after they are born.

19th Century: Abolitionists are obsessed with outlawing slavery, but they don’t demonstrate any concern for slaves after they attain freedom.

Having, by satanic promises and fair words, charmed away many of those docile and credulous creatures, they abandoned them to their own unfortunate fate … the negro is degraded, a vagabond and an outcast … and always used as the medium of self-laudation by the hypocrite … The people do not understand him — do not care for him — feel that they have no special interest in him — have no sympathy, that is not purely objective, with him — and treat him only as a medium of “moral” excitement. (T. W. MacMahon, “Cause and Contrast: an Essay on the American Crisis,” 67-68.)

Response: Even if abolitionists did not care about escaped slaves, it would not change the fact that slavery is barbaric and should be illegal. Likewise, even if pro-lifers do not care about born children, it would not change the fact that abortion is barbaric and should be illegal. (And by the way, pro-lifers do care about born children. See Helen Alvaré’s piece on “The Lazy Slander of the Pro-Life Cause.”)

Read the article “These Pro-Choice Arguments are Eerily Similar to Pro-Slavery Arguments” on lifesitenews.com.