“An attack on slavery would have been an open assault on “property,” a word which in the eighteenth century had deep emotional overtones.”
– Ronin Furneaux, “William Wilberforce,” 1974
The British Abolitionists made a decision to seek to first abolish the slave trade, and then to finally topple the monster of slavery itself. This strategy is employed by pro-lifers when we weaken the abortion industry through copious limitations and partial prohibitions. Limiting the means of child killing is a parallel with shutting down the slave trade. The rhetoric from abortion advocates today is a clear parallel with the cry of anti-Abolitionists of the past: “you can’t abolish slavery, because doing so would be an invasion of our property!”
