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Question: If a woman did not "choose" or "want" to become pregnant, then who is to say at what age the child is before it is no longer slavery? If it is permissible to murder an unborn child because the mother is "in bondage" by being pregnant with the child, then why don't we REALLY apply this anti-slavery-abortion thing to the max. After all, if justice against "slavery" is really the desired outcome, then what is to stop Johnsen and other people from applying it to children ALREADY BORN? Lets face the grim facts: there are no doubt ENORMOUS amounts of children whose mothers no longer want them, or whose mothers wish they had never been born. Should we kill all of these children in the name of abolishing slavery? Is it really so different than Johnsen stating that abortion is right because the mother is a "slave"? In the case of a mother who has a child out of this "slavery", does she have a right to do away with the "slaveholder" whenever the bondage is too much to handle? Before the baby was born, according to Johnsen, the mother is in a state of "slavery." After the baby has been born, nothing has changed; the mother is still in "bondage." This type of comment that Johnsen has made in and of itself is a put-down to women, pregnancy, child-rearing, and all other things motherly. It also belittles the ordeal that the slaves in America endured. While this alone is shocking and rude, there are really more terrifying possibilities. As I said before: what is to stop the abortion of already born children in the name of "anti-slavery"? You may laugh at the idea that killing born children may become legal, but think of this: 100 years ago abortion was pretty much non-existent. within the past half century abortion has become legal. Recently, bills were drawn up to make partial-birth abortion (killing the baby as it is being born) legal. To my knowledge partial-birth abortion is completely illegal now. But who can tell if that will change? Especially considering that our current president favours using federal funds to support abortion groups. Besides, let us keep in mind: in the 1800s, the anti-slavery movement did not try to abolish slavery by making it legal to murder slaveholders. Johnsen favours the "I don't want to be pregnant so I think I'll murder my own child"-technique, only her version is more frightening: abortion in the name of anti-slavery; an argument many people are too ignorant to refute.