There is no better example of the palliation of sin than in the existing attitude towards abortion. It is a perilous attitude - a pervading darkness that taunts the word of God inviting the most serious of consequences - as ill-omened today as it was one-hundred and fifty years ago when slavery was the perplexing issue.

Looking back to that time in our history, it is easy for our peculiar sense of moral outrage to ask how the people of that day could stand by and allow such an obviously wicked institution as slavery to exist. Didn't they see the offense, the inhumanity, the sin? We do, don't we? One wonders if future generations will ask the same question of our generation. Will they hold us in contempt? Will we all live in infamy, suffering the disgrace and sharing the blame with those who agreed with Justice William O. Douglas when he wrote the death warrants for millions of innocents:

"The rites of Baptism are not performed and death certificates are not required when a miscarriage occurs. No prosecutor has ever returned a murder indictment charging the taking of the life of a fetus. This would not be the case if the fetus constituted human life.

"Woman is free to make the basic decision whether to bear an unwanted child. Elaborate argument is hardly necessary to demonstrate that childbirth may deprive a woman of her preferred lifestyle and force upon her a radically different and undesired future. . . .

"The vicissitudes of life produce pregnancies which may be unwanted, or which may impair health in the broad Vuitch sense of the term, or which may imperil the life of the mother, or which, in the full setting of the case, may create such suffering, dislocations, misery, or tragedy as to make an early abortion the only civilized step to take. ." . . Justice Wm. O. Douglas - Roe v Wade.

The "vicissitudes of life" can also produce "people" who are unwanted for whom genocide is "the only civilized step to take." By the outbreak of World War II, actions taken against the Jews included marking them and ghettoizing them. By the time of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the decision had been taken to kill the eastern European Jews by shooting them where they were found (http://www.holocaust-history.org/hitler-final-solution/) and by the end of the year at the latest, the decision was taken to kill all European Jews."...(http://www.holocaust-history.org/ december-12-1941/).

Adolph Hitler believed that Jews were sub-human and WW2 was the result; Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that slaves were property and therefore not entitled to equal rights under the constitution and a bloody civil war ensued; Justice Douglas did not believe that the human fetus "constituted human life." - "Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil."

"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgement of heaven on a country. As nations can not be punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities" George Mason - slaveowner 1796.

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