Abortion and Slavery

I read an article that mentioned how slaveholders completely ignored Christian values. The slaveholders believed that the African-Americans weren't even people. They were merely considered "cattle" or property. In the same article, these beliefs were compared to those of abortion. Abortionists believe that an unborn child isn't even a child at all. They think it's simply a cluster of cells or a "fetus". Therefore, they do not consider abortion murder and believe that women should be allowed to have an abortion, regardless of what their husband, parents, family, religious community, or society in general had to say about it. While I agree with the fact that women should be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies, I disagree with the belief that an unborn child isn't fully human. Once a child is conceived, a new human heartbeat has begun. From the very first moment that that new heart starts beating, that so called "fetus" becomes a human. Once an abortion is performed, it is murder. You are ending the life of an unborn child and killing one of God's creations. Psalm 127: 3 says "Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him". If an unexpected pregnancy happens due to rape, it is not the child's fault and their life shouldn't be ended just because they were brought into this world in an unloving way. Just because you didn't ask to have the child doesn't mean you can be selfish and ends it's life.
Slaveholders were able to do as they say fit, such as beat their slaves even to the point of death. Many people were, and are, against slavery because the slaveholders were allowed to treat their slaves as less than human. Many people today that are in favor of abortion view slavery as morally wrong. They will argue that just because someone has a different skin color like the African-Americans, they are still people just like you and me. But what they don't realize is that they are contradicting their own thoughts. People that are pro-abortion believe that an unborn baby is not a human until it's born. Slaveholders believed that the African-Americans weren't human because of their skin color. Even Hitler believed that the Jews weren't human because they were a different race. Genesis 1:26 says "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness'" and Genesis 5:2 also says, "He created them make and female, and he blessed them and called them 'human'". People are people no matter what. If you have an abortion, you are killing one of God's creations.
Some states have the law that states if someone kills a pregnant woman and her baby dies, it is considered double homicide if the mother is far enough along to where the baby could survive out of the womb. There are even some states that have no limit as to when a woman can abort her unborn baby.  California is a state that has both of these laws. Say you have two pregnant women that are both eight months pregnant and live in California. If one woman has an abortion, it is not murder. If the other is murdered and her baby dies too, it is double murder. Both babies were killed, but only one was considered a murder. Both babies lives were ended at the same time, so they should both be considered murder. Just because one mother chose to end the life of her unborn child and the other mother didn't doesn't mean that one should be considered murder and the other shouldn't. Both babies were killed and therefore, both babies were  murdered.