The President's bold stance against slavery explained

Apparently the anti-choice brigade is trying a new tactic--the argue that fetuses are being mistreated like slaves used to be and treated like property--and that's why the Shrub took a bold stand against slavery during the debate.

They are fucking themselves with this argument, because what's closer to slavery is not being "preborn" or whatever. Being pregnant against your will, however, is quite a bit like slavery under the Constitution.

Amendment XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Involuntary servitude. A woman who is pregnant is working, as I've pointed out before. Her entire body is turned over to the process of creating another person--everything she eats, everything she drinks, every time she sleeps, etc. Being pregnant is more than a full-time job, it's a Full Time job. There's not a point where a pregnant woman's body is not turned over to the labor of growing another person.

Forcing a woman to make a baby she doesn't want to make is involuntary servitude. And while the anti-choice brigade does point out that she shouldn't have had sex if she didn't want to be forced to have a baby, they are not making a valid legal argument. As the law stands right now, having sex is not a crime, pregnant women are not convicted of a crime, and therefore they are legally entitled to be free. Read the 13th Amendment again for clarification.

The Dred Scott decision was wrong because it allowed that one person could be property of another. By trying to argue that a fetus is a person who is not property of the mother, they are trying to turn women into the property of the state. Which we most certainly are not. And that the President supports giving fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs human rights while taking away a woman's right to be free from forced labor should be cause for alarm for everyone.