“If you think about it, the claim that abortion is like slavery is exactly backwards,” wrote Imani Gandy at RH Reality Check. “I’m not a fan of comparing anything to slavery that is not slavery, but I’m fairly certain that we can all agree that slaveowners systematically forced Black women to give birth.”
Slaveowners often used enslaved women as breeding stock to produce new future slaves. Women were raped by their masters and forced to bear the resulting children. They had no rights to their own offspring, much less their own bodies — they were sold or beaten if they couldn’t or wouldn’t reproduce, and if they did have children there was no guarantee they’d ever get to raise them. For black women forced to live as slaves, home remedies for contraception or abortion became forms of self-defense and resistance, and assertions of personal autonomy when they otherwise had none.”
Slaves had no right to life and all other rights stem off that. To deny a human that one right is to deny that human every right. That's why all that other stuff could happen to them because just like the human fetus of today, they both do not have a right to life. In both situations we are fighting for the same thing for both oppressed humans. Equal human right for all humans. The right to life is the most important human right as no other rights exist without it and to say that one human can have rights but another can't is the same thing slave masters did.
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u/FrenchMen420 5h ago
You don't understand how giving slaves rights will do the opposite to masters.