Commentary
Some editorial writers, columnists, and activists are working overtime to tell stories of women who oppose last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade. Women will die, they say. What about the lives of their unborn children?
This attempt to divide humanity into categories of worth and less worth is reminiscent of the court’s Dred Scott decision in 1857, which said black slaves could not be citizens of the United States (suggesting they were less valuable than white people). The 7-2 decision was widely regarded as the worst decision in the court’s history. Until Roe….