Poor analogy.

Abortions – even if you think they are a form of murder – are very different from what terrorists do, and although black woman in the US have a much higher abortion rate than white woman do, white women certainly do not shun abortion.

As for black-on-black killings in the US, the black community overwhelmingly condemns it, as opposed to the response of cheering and applause from Palestinians for terrorist attacks against Israelis.

And read some Thomas Sowell on the idea that black people have some innate propensity for violence.

I’m lucky; I never had to decide whether to have an abortion. I had one close call – very close; I tested positive in the early stages of a relationship, and then, probably serendipitously but it made me and the man sad nonetheless, I had a miscarriage, within days of the positive test. I still don’t know what I would have done if Providence hadn’t taken the decision out of my hands.

I was at least supposedly using contraception. But it was a barrier method with a failure rate of up to 10% even when used perfectly, and I wasn’t close to perfect – not nearly as careful as I should have been. I changed methods after that.

I suppose technically there was one other decision point in my life: when I found myself pregnant at 37, after having already had the two children my husband and I had planned. But there was never any question that that child was going to be our third, God willing, once we knew he was in the offing.

More to the point, with both our second and third children (as I was considered “elderly” at that point), we turned down amniocentesis, because as my husband said, what would we change if we found out something bad? We were already in it for the whole banana peel at that point. But we were in a stable, lifelong (by intent, anyway, and now I can confirm also in fact) relationship.

I wish there were a foolproof, easy to implement way to keep women – and the men who love them – from ever having to face such a decision. No matter what Ms. Washington says or thinks, abortion takes a dreadful psychic toll on most women. But there’s no such way; abstention is very hard these days, sterilization has lifelong consequences, weird sexual practices carry their own price, contraception can fail, and people’s desires can be very powerful.

Soo, here is my Steve McQueen story. I could show you on a map where a major freeway cuts through the mountains by Forest Lawn(Hollywood) and Griffith Park. There was a road there that led into Hollywood. It cut through a bit of a canyon. On one side of the canyon was a gas station/garage. On the other side of the canyon up in the hills just a little bit is where Steve McQueen lived. He used to go over to that garage and work on his cars and motorcycles. This was before he became really famous.
My high school sweetheart was a little bit like him–red hair, angular face and a passion for taking cars apart. The high school kids who were serious about “hopping up” their cars (1953-56) could be found at that garage working on that which was the most important thing in their lives-souped up cars. The fact that some new and upcoming movie star would drop in to work on his didn’t mean anything to us, because the young and upcoming actors lived all around us–James Darren, Tab Hunter, Dale Roebertson, etc. One day, my friend showed up outside the house in a really “sweet” convertible. I looked twice because both the driver and my friend looked so much alike. After a minute of staring out the window, I realized it was in fact “Steve”. He gave my friend a lift to our place because my friend couldn’t get his car running in time to get home!
Maybe it was just my high school hormones, but even from that window there was something special about him.

And many wonder how our western ancestors could have done so: How could they do that, How could they not understand, How could they believe, etc.

In the future – with different standards and knowledge – the same will probably be said of Abortion: How could they do that, How could they not understand, How could they believe, etc.

Thing is, some people think it’s morally wrong and some people think it’s not, and some people thinks it’s somewhere in between depending on the reason for the pregnancy, the health of the mother, and the stage of the pregnancy.

That’s why many people advocate compromise laws.