Violette, thank you for you comment too, but you seem to be missing the point.
You say women shouldn’t be told how to live their lives, but you support a woman being able to END the life of another human being. Your logic doesn’t really make sense.

Going back to the issue of slavery, couldn’t plantation owners argue that the North shoudn’t interfere with their right to own slaves? That they should be able to treat people as property, and to say otherwise would be “telling them how to live their lives”. Does that make slavery right?

No matter how you try to justify it, abortion kills a child and hurts a mother. Because of that, it IS our duty to “interfere”, rather than remain silent.

Those that fought or rebeled against their own country – hiding Jews or speaking out against the Reich – were few and far between, so today we don’t have as many heroes from that time as would in the future from today.

What we would have is a lot more that participated in abortion, though there were a lot that participated as Nazis.

For this reason, I believe that people will hide what their role was. The generations that follow will come to wonder what we were thinking, collectively. Those that had abortions will come to be looked down on. And those that pushed others to abort – coercing partners, pro-choicers – will come to be reviled. Abortionists and their accomplices will be as death camp guards. Tiller and Carhart, like Mengele.

Because its always easier to see evil in someone else. Confederate. Slave trader. Brown shirt. Gestapo. Camp guard.

Even the most active pro-lifers will be seen as putting up with evil incarnate by not doing enough. “You mean all you did was join a Facebook group? All you did was March? Peaceful counseling while the butchers were killing dozens every day just TENS of feet away from where you stood?!? What’s WRONG with you!!!”

As a man that coerced a girl into having one that has switched sides, I wear the red swastika armband, feel the shame and loss of honor. God’s forgiveness is one thing; the viewpoint of history books will be quite another.

But life’s not over, there may be enough time yet – I have only my lifetime to make enough of a difference to win the right to speak to future generations. Hopefully, it will be enough.

If such a day comes, I will tell people that I supported a woman’s right to choose. I will not be ashamed and I explain that the government cared so much for the unborn children that the ones who make it are on their own.

I will tell people that no matter what choice you make it will be difficult that it is a decision for the people involved to make and not for someone else to tell them how to live their lives.

That is what I will tell people if one day, abortion becomes illegal in this country.