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The year was 1976. I was sitting in high school history class at the all-boys Catholic high school I attended in Toledo, Ohio. On most days, I may have been daydreaming about playing football. But t<\/span>he lesson on this particular day was the Supreme Court\u2019s Dred Scott<\/em> decision. I was all ears. You see, I was the only black kid in the class, so you can imagine things got a little awkward\u2026 for myself and for the teacher who was giving us a lesson on this pivotal moment in our nation\u2019s history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I will never forget the feeling I had when I learned about this infamous decision. I remember thinking, even as a teenager, \u201cHow could such a terrible injustice be allowed to take place? And how could the Supreme Court of the United States endorse and codify such injustice!?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t remember, Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri who had escaped to the free state of Illinois. However, his master claimed that he was still his property, and therefore should be returned to him as a slave even though he was now living in a free state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tragically, the Supreme Court sided with the slave master and made this momentous determination: once a slave, always a slave. If you were a slave in the United States, your slave master was <\/span>always<\/span><\/i> your slave master until <\/span>he<\/span><\/i> decided that he wasn\u2019t\u2026 Even if you escaped and lived your life in a free state\u2026 Even if the people in that free state wanted to help you restore your life and live as a free person\u2026 you still belonged to your slave master.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, you might be thinking, \u201cwhat does this have to do with abortion?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the thing. The state of Montana just rejected a ballot initiative that would have made it illegal for medical professionals to deny medical care to survivors of abortion, effectively leaving them to die. So, as it stands, the law in Montana states that if an unborn baby survives an abortion, it is perfectly legal to <\/span>deny<\/span><\/i> medical care to that now <\/span>born<\/span><\/i> child.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How can this be? Well, the law, with the support of a pro-choice culture, has determined that a child can be left to die because the mother of the child \u2014 in a legal sense \u2014 is the child\u2019s owner. That child is essentially \u201censlaved\u201d in the mother\u2019s womb. And now, legally, even if the child \u201cescapes\u201d and finds \u201cfreedom\u201d outside the womb, it still belongs to its mother, who has the power to ensure the child suffers the fate she wanted for it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Remember, she was trying to have an abortion, the end product of which is a dead baby. In our consumer culture, she feels entitled to get what she paid for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I read about this vote in Montana, I had the same feeling as when I was 14 years old and learned about the injustice of the Dred Scott<\/em> decision. Dred Scott found freedom, but he still belonged to someone else. That slave master ordered a slave, and he was going to get one. <\/span><\/p>\n

A child can survive an abortion in Montana and find the freedom of life\u2026 but that child still belongs to the mother. She ordered a dead child, and she\u2019s going to get one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Think about it this way. Imagine you\u2019re passing by a hospital and you\u2019re somehow able to see through the window. Inside, you see a helpless newborn baby lying alone on a cold, steel table. It clearly looks like it\u2019s in trouble. It\u2019s crying. It\u2019s writhing around in obvious discomfort. Now, you would think that the most appropriate response would be to try and find immediate medical help for the baby. You would ask \u201cwhy is this baby being left to suffer without medical care?\u201d It\u2019s in a hospital after all. <\/span><\/p>\n

But in Montana, and other places in our nation, that\u2019s actually the wrong question. The \u201cright\u201d question is \u201cwas that baby aborted?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, this is, in the most perverse way possible, the <\/span>moral<\/span><\/i> question to ask. Montana\u2019s voters have determined that the <\/span>right<\/span><\/i> thing to do is to leave the baby to die. It may have found freedom for a short time, but it still belongs to its mother, who asked for it to be aborted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How can such injustice be allowed to take place? Well, the more things change, the more they stay the same. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly, human beings can be pretty predictable. The Bible tells us everything we need to know about human nature. \u201cWe are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God.\u201d Our sin causes us to be selfish and to look out for our own interests above the interests of others\u2026 especially the vulnerable. It is why we can view the unborn as lives worth sacrificing, not as lives worth sacrificing for. Abortion, we are told, allows us to have better lives for ourselves. The same was true with slavery. <\/span><\/p>\n

Owning slaves would allow slaveholders to have better lives for themselves. So, we build laws and make decisions \u2014 like the Dred Scott<\/em> decision and the recent vote in Montana \u2014 that protect our \u201cright\u201d to these better lives, while sacrificing the lives of the most vulnerable and powerless among us. Different eras. Different circumstances. Same sin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But as Pro Abundant Life people, we believe that every human life is precious and worthy of protection. So, let\u2019s pray that our nation comes to believe as we do about the value of human life, and the value of the mothers and fathers who need our compassion, hope, and help every day so they can choose life for their unborn children and abundant life, in Christ, for their families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Roland C. Warren is President and CEO of Care Net (<\/span>rwarren@care-net.org<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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