Thank you to everyone for joining, especially to the people who disagree with me.

Much as I love Flame Wars on Twitter, it is usually not possible to resolve complex

moral issues in 288 characters.

So I figured it would be better to put the memes and the insults and the one-liners aside

and face the people in the replies, mono-amano.

The other day I said inventing a constitutional right to abortion is the single worst thing

America has ever done.

Someone angrily replied asking if I didn't think that perhaps slavery was worse.

I said that abortion is much worse than slavery.

Slavery deprives people of liberty.

Abortion robs them of life.

Our nation is predicated on the idea that our creator endows us with certain natural

rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

But these rights are not equal.

Rather, they depend upon one another.

We cannot pursue happiness unless we have liberty.

We cannot have liberty unless we have life.

If life and liberty come into conflict, it is incoherent to choose liberty or a pale

perversion of liberty, as we see in the case of abortion, over life, since liberty cannot

exist without life.

So it seems pretty clear to me that abortion is much worse than slavery, which I tweeted

and then all hell broke loose.

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