__Mike – I'm sure you have my best interests at heart.~~

Yes I have, Jim. So please don't write any more such relativist nonsense as

Six million Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis,
Only half a million Gypsies suffered the same fate
Less considered undesirable because of mental or physical deficiencies went to the gas chambers
Less again died for being Trades Unionists, Communists or other types of opponents of the state
A mere one in ten of the male population of Lidice were lined up and shot following Heidrick's assassination
And many thousand more unconnected individuals were picked out and murdered at the whim of those in charge.
None of them measured up to the six million in numbers
At what point does persecution cease to become persecution on your particular sliding scale

All those instances you adduce were on the top of the persecution scale, as all involved the deaths of inncocent people guilty of no crime except such as was so regarded in the perverted society they lived in, where one's race/nationality could become a capital crime. And do you honestly not think this a different level or degree of persecution from making abortion or contraception difficult to obtain?

You are coming on: but really must try harder, you know...