Huffington Post Editor Howard Fineman Compares Abortion to Slavery
It would probably be best if political pundits removed slavery and Nazism from their vocabulary, considering comparisons to either only serves to 
inflame the electorate. But such comparisons do make news, and that’s really what it’s all about. The latest media pundit to jump into the fray is the Huffington Post‘s Howard Fineman, who compared the abortion debate to the Civil War debate over slavery.
“I was on the floor of the convention halls at both conventions – the loudest single applause line of any at both conventions on a singular topic was on abortion,” said Fineman in an interview. “Republicans, pro-life. Democrats, pro-choice. That is a bright line, a divisive line, that is every bit as deep and as emotional as the issue of slavery was 150 years ago.”
Fineman made the comments while being interviewed about his recent column, entitled Our Slow Motion Civil War, in which he writes:
But beyond race, even more central today is the divisive argument over the “traditional” family’s role in society and in the genetic destiny of humanity itself. That battle, in turn, is tied to one between science and faith over public policy. Decibel levels prove the point. The abortion issue elicited the loudest cheers in both Tampa and Charlotte alike.
Fineman may be right in that the battle lines between progressives and conservatives are already drawn. Conservatives believe in the sort of traditionalism of the 1950′s, a period during which most minorities were marginalized, whereas progressives believe in change that encompasses a woman’s right to choose, gay rights, affirmative action, and a path to citizenship for immigrants.
Still, it seems that there is little valid comparison between the debate over abortion and slavery. It gets people talking, but fails to really get them to thinking. What do you think? Is abortion akin to slavery?
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How can abortion be akin to slavery when slaves had no choice as to whether or not they wanted to be a slave. Abortion is normally a choice unless there is a specific reason or reasons that a woman should have one. And even then it is still a choice. I don’t even understand why someone would even attempt to compare the two.
The child is the one who has lost their choice in abortion.
@crystal:
This political game is getting worse everyday! One party says, it’s okay to kill your baby, the other sides says, you can’t kill your baby!
We are just paying these TRICKSTERS, their salaries to keep scratching and knawing at each other every four years. It’s as simple as that.
We vote in these clowns during local elections, and they LIE, just like the clowns up on capital hill, AND DO NOTHING! They talk a good game to get elected, but once they’re in office poli(TRICKS) as usual.
Black voters are being used to help these foreigners ‘gain their rights’ while we continue to suffer! Today, these homosexuals have more rights than a STRAIGHT BLACK MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD. Just look how they DEMAND their rights, while negroids sit back and continue to beg!!! But, they call these gay folks…sissies!!! Who are the REAL sissies?
This cartoon was racist and I can OBSERVE where this khazar was coming from with the negroid slave, holding a caucasoid baby, while up in ‘heaven’. HE’S STILL GETTING FVCKED by the lawd.
During our forced enslavement, the slave maker would impregnate the Black woman, to continue his evil deeds of enslaving our people. She had no choice, but to keep the baby by this rapist; therefore, it is akin to slavery, and the greedy rapist, pedophile, sodomizer, caucasoid enslaver is the CULPRIT!
The only ‘abortion’ he would perform on the Black woman was to hang her from a tree; and he would cut the baby from her womb; and then stomp on it, if it was too dark!
Now you know!
Satan is at it Again! Like Granny used to say “When you Stir s**t it Stinks”this is all these Devils Do! Planed Parenthood Eugenics Society are all in our Hoods Black people these are the Same Devils who with some DumbDevils(Negroes) were behind the Tuskegee Experiment giving Blackmen Syphilis & denied them treatment! Then these Devils turned around and gave our people 37,000 Dollars for them & they Children who had this Stuff! Planed Parenthood have step up they plans to get rid of us since the late 1950′s because we was getting too Deep! These Eugenics Crackers gave money from America to n**i Germany to try & win that War Prescott Bush this Devil was a Bank President in NY was caught hiding n**i Money & Never went to jail because he is a Bush & a Shriner! The Devil Hate the Truth! If you don’t like the truth you don’t belong on the Planet! Today Negroes go along to get along Smiling in Whitefolks faces! How sick can you be,you want to hold some Crackers Hand & hate yourself & your own but love this Enemy! THEMuhammad was right the Whiteman is the Devil! God comes with knowledge to Separate the people! He not the Devil because of White Skin no! but he is the Devil because he thinks He is Superior to you & has no respect for the entire Human Family because he thinks he’s better & has no respect for our Humanity He will twist his mind up like a Pretsel to make you seem like something to be killed,so they call you a n****r & Blow your Head off! These Devils are Beasts in Human Form!I have not Hanger with Whitefolks Since 1989 I was in High School! I just stay away because I know they are not to be trusted! Just think everytime some Negroes trusted these Crackers something Bad Happens you Should have know better you Dummies! History was my Favorite Subject Investigate!
First of all, calling white people crackers, and then denouncing their racism is nothing short of hypocrisy.
Secondly, you have just fallen into the nice trap set by YBW, trying to make a racist outrage headline by misinterpreting Fineman’s comment. Read the actual quote, and not what the reporter here is saying:
‘That is a bright line, a divisive line, that is every bit as deep and emotional as the issue of slavery was 150 years ago.’ He is talking about the DIVISIVE LINE created by the issue! He is not talking about how abortion is like slavery at all! He is talking about how these issues have polarized each party, just like with slavery! Use your initiative and understanding, and not the race card, that YBW are trying to incite! If that is possible for you.
Louisianna when the French was there had Gay SlaveMasters? Being a Black h**o is Unnatural Behaviour it is the Death Penalty in the Muslim World you can go over with your wrist Broke if you want your Neck will be next! Any Arab Fagits or BullDaggers go to the UK or America to Freak off lol Preachers were instructed to preach about turning the other Cheek & Sermons to make us Better Slaves & More Subserviant! If you ever see Any Muslims Preaching the Bible it’s because that Bible is the Negroes Graveyard if you was Burried in China I would have to go to China & Dig you up so this is what is being Done! The Bible is a Book that must be reenterpreted so that mankind Won’t be fooled by the Falsehoods that have been added! I know Jesus but who in the h**l is King James a Cracker who had s*x with his own Mother! Sick! Devils
I think people here should calm down. If you read the actual comment, instead of spontaneously combusting, and you look past the misrepresentations of YBW network, you will realize that what Fineman said did NOT compare the two- but the effect of the two on the beliefs of each party. He was talking about the emotions that both issues caused, not the actual acts being compared! Learn to read, some-all of you! And YBW, stop twisting people’s words out of context, just to get a typical racist outrage headline!
During slavery many women wanted abortions because either the master or someone in his family was the father and the slave women did not want her child rasied in the institution of slavery. On the other hand the master wanted the slave women to have children, it increased his profit… free workers..
Whatever your point of view on abortion, thought the cartoon made an interesting connection I had never considered before…..
I think that the abortion and the slavery debates do have some things in common. In the case of abortion, we here proponents of abortion opining that “women have the right to choose,” and, in the case of slavery, proponents of slavery argued for “states having the right to decide their fate.” Both of these arguments engage in subterfuge. By arguing that women have a right to choice–given the subordination of women to “the second s*x” throughout human history–not many intellegint people are interested in denying them any further rights. And, given the abuse of the federal government in our nation’s history, most would agree that states should have some right to choose their fate. The deeper questions are, “What do women have the right to choose?”, and, “What rights are afforded to the state?” If one views abortion as the killing of a developing human being inside the womb of the mother–as I do–then we are we are talking about a woman’s right to decide whether or not a person has a right to live, a right which I do not believe the woman, state, or federal government has the right to do. If one believes that every human being bears the imago Dei, the image of God, then it is not the right of anyone–the local, state, or federal government to own another human being as a slave. So, there is no way on God’s green earth that one can argue that any state official has the right to decide whether or not one can own a human being. For the record, I am not with the Christian right camp who is only concerned with the child as long it is in the womb, but once it’s born does not seem to be willing to offer any support. I am for the child from the womb to the tomb. As long as proponents of abortion can cloud the abortion debate as some religious fanatics or oppressive men trying to infringe upon the rights of women instead of actually wrestling ethically and scientifically with what abortion is, then they are engaging in the same mendacity as southerners who tried to cloud the slavery debate as one in which the federal government was trying to oppresse them and rob them of their rights as juxtaposed to what they really wanted, the right to own another human being.