What can the experiences of enslaved Black women teach us about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade?
. I'm Melissa Harris-Perry and it's good to have you with us. Just hours after the Supreme court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, overruling the nearly 50-year precedent set by Roe v. Wade, Missouri became the first state in the nation to ban all abortions. Here's Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.I am humbled to be a part of this and the first attorney general in the country to effectively end abortion.
Even after the bloody civil war and the 13th Amendment ended American slavery, this language that a Black man has no rights which the white man was bound to respect that language reverberated across the American landscape. Jim Crow, segregated school, disenfranchisement, red lines, more than 4,000 lives taken by lynchings.
Indeed, the late Justice Scalia made the same comparison in his dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the decision which upheld Roe. Since last week's decision by the court to reverse Roe v.
If you really understand African American history, you say,"Wait a minute, they did this once. They were quite clear about doing this, and they did it when they declared that this was a country that was a nation of laws, and made sure they justified this in the courts. They put it in the constitution without even calling it slavery."The court's decision to overturn Roe rest not only in the majority's strict textual interpretation but also in its reading of American history.
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