• There is a continuing need for church activism such as in the anti-abortion
movement. There are many similarities between abortion and slavery. This can be seen by
observing the similarities between Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1857, which said that slavery was
legal because blacks were nonpersons owned by their masters, and Roe v. Wade in 1973, which
stated that abortion is legal because unborn babies are nonpersons owned by their
mothers.
It was declared that
abolitionists should not impose morality on the slave
owner, and later on, it was decided that pro-life advocates should not impose morality on
the mothers.[58] Churches and their leaders
fought against slavery and later against segregation. Today, many church leaders want to stop
the modern day slavery of abortion but cannot because the IRS code will not allow them “to
influence legislation”[59]