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Comparison: Abortion and Other Genocides
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| Point of Comparison | Slavery | The Holocaust | Abortion |
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| Denial of Personhood Status | "In the eyes of the law... the slave is not a person." -Virginia Supreme Court, 1858 | "The Reichsgericht itself refused to recognize Jews... as 'persons' in the legal sense." -German Supreme Court, 1936 | "Canada does not recognize the unborn child as a legal person..." -Canadian Supreme Court, 1997 |
| Dehumanizing Portrayals | Black slaves were often assigned diminutive names, such as "mingo," that were normally reserved for pets. Ota Benga, an African from the Congo, was put on display at a Bronx zoo in 1906. | Cartoons routinely depicted Jews as pigs, dogs, rats, and other vermin. Naxis used words like "parasites" and "bacilli" to describe those they exterminated. East Europeans were considered "untermensch," which means subhuman. | The unborn are labeled "products of conception" and "tissue" and have been compared to animal fetuses. Abortionist Warren Hern in his medical textbook, Abortion Practice, analogizes the unborn to parasites. |
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| Victims Have Something Others Want To Use | Blacks were wanted for their work product. They were also used in harmful experiments to obtain medical information. | Jews' material wealth was wanted by Nazis, who also took over people's land. Deadly medical experiments were performed on prisoners. | The unborn are killed in the process of removing their stem cells, a procedure rationalized under the guise of helping the born. |
| Victims Are Seen As A Burden | Emancipated slaves were considered unable to take care of themselves and seen as a drain on society's resources. Compensating blacks for work meant less wealth for slave owners. | The disabled and elderly were considered "useless eaters" and were viewed as using up resources needed by fit Germans. | Sick unborn children are considered a drain on a family's or society's resources. "Unwanted" unborn children are viewed as interfering with lifestyle or career advancement. |
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| Sheer Volume Of Victims Killed | 8.5-13 million slaves died in transport to the New World. | 6 million Jews and 5 million others. | 42 million/year worldwide and 100,000/year in Canada. |