It's Tuesday, September 5, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Jamel Bowie is an influential colonist for the New York Times.

He's a man of the left, having written for the American prospect and the nation before

joining the editorial and opinion team at The New York Times.

I do not find myself often in agreement with him, and if anything, that's an understatement.

But just in recent days, he has written a piece that compels our attention and at least

our partial agreement.

Now in this case, the word partial is entirely necessary.

But let's look at the piece.

The headline is this, what the contradiction of slavery tells us about abortion rights.

Now Jamel Bowie is not the first person to draw a link between the question of slavery

and the question of abortion.

Both of them have directly to do with the question of who is a person and who has human

rights and how must a government take account of those constitutional rights, those basic

human rights that are even prior to the constitution, natural rights.

But this argument has been made from both the left and the right, and when it comes to abortion,

from those who have the pro-abortion side and from those who take the pro-life side.

In this case, Jamel Bowie is decidedly taking the pro-abortion side.

But he makes an argument that really should compel our attention.

His argument is based on this.

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