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It reminded me of the Democrat’s current fight to protect abortion. First they said it was necessary, like they did slavery. Then they tried to justify it according to Scripture, like they did slavery. It took a little twisting of Scripture because the Bible banned slavery, but allowed servitude for debts, which they used to justify it, even though their slavery wasn’t for debts and wasn’t limited in time like it was in Isreal. Abortion was more difficult because it wasn’t practiced in Bible times, so they couldn’t justify it on that basis. Finally they justified slavery on the basis that it was the compassionate thing to do. The Negro wasn’t able to take care of himself and so the benevolent plantation owner needed to take care of him in return for his service. Today they claim they have to save the baby from a miserable life and help the poor helpless women and girls who find themselves pregnant with a baby they can’t take care of, or just don’t want. It is their whole approach to life. They feel that the average person doesn’t know what is best for them so they have to step in and help them out. When laws and the will of the people go against what they feel is best, they ignore them, because they feel that they know what is best for everyone. Of course, it helps that they get paid well for their compassion. When the Supreme Court opened the door to abortion, they proclaimed that the States didn’t have any right to restrict it but as soon as the Supreme Court declared that the baby was a person protected by the Constitution, they proclaimed that the States had the right to allow it and moved to change the State laws to allow abortion. When some States decided they didn’t want abortion, they used their power in the federal government to bypass the State laws and make abortion available in spite of the wishes of the people of those States. They don’t really care about the rights of the  State, or of the people, all they care about is protecting abortion. In fact, they don’t seem to care about the women and girls either because they fight any attempt to enforce basic protections for women like licensing of those performing abortions and inspections of the facilities, informed consent for clients and parental consent for minors. Their whole efforts stem from their belief that the average person doesn’t know what is best for them and they, the liberal politicians, are superior to the average person and have to make people do what they feel is best for them.

I was reading about events leading up to the Civil War where they proposed a compromise to allow new States to vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or not. The current federal legislation allowed slavery below the Mason-Dixon line but the new States were territory gained from Mexico who had outlawed slavery. The liberal politicians fought it because they wanted to keep the current law. It showed their duplicity. They wanted their States to determine if they allowed slavery or nor and felt the federal government should not tell them whether to have slaves because they were afraid the federal government would abolish slavery, yet they felt the federal government should determine whether the new States had slavery because they were afraid the States might abolish slavery in their borders. In other words, they didn’t care about State’s rights, all they cared about was protecting slavery from which they profited. They felt the slaves were not capable of taking care of themselves and needed the plantation owners to care for them.