It is at moments like these that I am at once confused, angry, and amused. Let's see, the Bible gave guidelines for those who already owned slaves (not those seeking to purchase them) in order to promote kindness and a change of heart from the slaveholders in a time when the practice was common. Secondly, this has absolutely nothing to do with the slave-trade practices of Europe or America as it relates to the Antebellum South and in no way condones the practice. To say so would be uneducated cherry-picking by a desperate believer in the idea that the "War of Northern Aggression" continues to the present. Third, the idea that abortion and slavery are comparable is ludicrous as the one item deals entirely with one's own body and functions; whilst the other deals with the issue of owning and controlling another human being's body and functions. To say that abortion is murder while slavery is mere folly is like saying that alcohol imbibed while driving is a killer but cigarettes are a harmless vice. Give me a break. These weekend wiseacres make far more money than they should off of people's pain, ignorance, and gullibility.