The Patriot Post® · Friday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Erick Erickson: 21st-Century Slavery
• Tony Perkins: Trump to HHS: Proceed With Conscience
• Jonah Goldberg: Does the California Model Really Work?
• David Limbaugh: The Press Is Not Above Reproach
• Michael Barone: Tough Road Ahead for Trump in Year Two

For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion.

Opinion in Brief

Erick Erickson: “Proving there is nothing new under the sun, modern progressivism functions like a 5,000-year-old death cult to Moloch. Children once sacrificed for the rain gods must now be aborted to stave off global warming. Children once sacrificed to the gods of harvest must now be aborted to stave off mass starvation. What is old is new again. In fact, the old arguments for slavery made by white plantation owners in the South have been repackaged as the new arguments by white progressives for abortion. Slaves were property the slave owners could do with as they pleased. Now we talk about bodies and how no one else can tell a woman what to do with her body. If she wants to have an abortion, who cares about the kid. It is her property. Likewise, slaves were not real people according to the plantation owners. Now, babies in the womb are not real people. Slaves were actually better off on plantations than as savages in Africa, defenders of the institution told us. Now we are told it is far better to kill the child than have her be born unwanted or unloved. Slaves, we were told, could not really feel the pain of the beatings. Now, babies in the womb cannot feel pain until they leave the womb. … Abortion is the new slavery. As people, some of them survivors of abortions, march in Washington this weekend, we should pray that a resolution comes to this issue more peacefully than how this nation resolved slavery.”