Posted on 03/07/2007 3:41:15 PM PST by wagglebee
ST. LOUIS, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In March 1856, a black slave named Dred Scott was judged by the US Supreme Court to be less than a person. Today his great, great granddaughter, Lynne Jackson, is pointing to the case as a beacon of hope that full human rights will be extended to all citizens, regardless of their age, size or degree of dependency.
The March 6, 1857 Dred Scott decision ruled that any person descended from black Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of the United States, according to the U.S. Constitution. Blacks, the ruling said, were "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." The decision was overturned by the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery less than ten years later in 1865.
Speaking on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision, Jackson told The Pathway, the journal of the Missouri Baptist Convention, that she had herself witnessed an abortion.
Jackson, who is a civil rights activist, described an abortion she had seen, saying, "You see this beautiful form of a darling baby just floating around… Eventually, you really can't see the arms and legs anymore, of course, because it's being pulled apart in that particular procedure. So now you're just looking at stuff floating, where a minute ago you were looking at a baby."
"And it is a baby, and life does begin at conception," Jackson added.
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told the Baptist Press that pro-life advocates should take heart and keep in mind that although in 1856, "the pro-slavery forces in America were impregnable…pro-freedom forces were utterly triumphant less than a decade later."
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It was also handed down two days after a presidential inauguration.
After Hillary's speech ..... how does she now double back on the "pro-choice" crowd??
This is great news. Little by little, bit by bit.
I would say that the most infamous SCOTUS decisions in order are, Roe v. Wade, Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson. However, I think ultimately the most harmful one is the first major decision, Marbury v. Madison, because it was the court adjudicating itself unconstitutional powers in this case that resulted in the other travesties.
Oh boy, liberals are NOT going to know how to respond to this. Heehee.
You may want to check out Sparf vs US as another extremely damaging court case.
Atta girl, Lynne!
EXACTLY!
Martin Luther King's niece is also a very vocal opponent of abortion.
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so appropriate....
It's an ocean of support against the abortion movement ... only there's no winds to push the waters to show the vastness of the current.
OMG, some things shock you to read even though you knew about it before. It's one of those things that never loses that "punch in the gut" effect.
Providence!
God love her for speaking out about something so incredibly obscene. Politics aside, it was the right thing to do.
Bush tortutred this woman and implanted some type of right-wing homing device in her.
LOL! It wouldn't surprise me if a liberal said that. ;-)
Usually the pro-choice feminazis say that these African Americans that tie it to slavery or feminists for life are confused because in their minds pregnancy is a form of slavery. They believe it is comparable to slavery if a woman can't control who is in her uterus. To me the argument is ridiculous.
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