When I still worked in health care I had some training on abuse, particularly against spouse and children, but there are many other kinds. We learned that abusers are not people with uncontrollable anger issues. Abusers can control their anger at work, with friends, with the cops. That is why, when abuse is disclosed, there are so many people rallying to the support of the accused. They never witnessed any anger episodes. But the real reason people abuse those they supposedly love, is ownership. They feel their family/pet/partner is their property and they have a right to use whatever means possible to control their own possessions. Those who are not abusive recognize this is wrong. People are not property.
And as I recently pointed out, property rights were the reason the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision said a slave whose owner moves to a state without slavery is not eligible to be freed because, no matter where he resides, a slave is still the property of his owner. Eleven years later, slavery was abolished and the Supreme Court's ruling became a moot point. But it remains black mark in American history because, despite the cultural acceptance of slavery in the southern states, it was wrong. People are not property.
This brings us back to abortion. Despite tolerance of abortion in much of our culture and the fanatic propaganda of Planned Parenthood, the assumption is the same ol' same ol'--the unborn child is the property of the mother. Though only nine months of what could reasonably be 90 years of life independent of its mother, though the child has different DNA, fingerprints and many other distinctions, the current catchphrase of pro-choice is "My body, my choice." But it is not the mother's body that gets torn apart, it is the baby's body, and they are given no choice in the decision. In the name of reproductive health care, we destroy the health of the reproduced. Legal or not, this has always been wrong. People are not property.
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