Should women face prison time for abortion?

Very interesting from LifeSiteNews:

Like so many dimensions of the abortion debate, illumination can be found by turning to America’s slavery debate. Throughout his career, Abraham Lincoln supported a number of compensated emancipation proposals – freeing slaves, but paying owners for their financial loss. Would pro-choicers say that made his opposition to slavery any less sincere or thoughtful?

“The feeling is against slavery, not against the South,” he said. “Until very recently the North has been of the same opinion. For two hundred years the whole country has admitted it,” and any solution to the crisis had to recognize that context. Compensation, he hoped, would help emancipation go down more peacefully (of course, the Civil War kept that theory from being tested). Today’s context is different – we’d punish rather than pay slavers because slavery’s evil has been universally understood for the past century and a half.

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