Posted on 07/05/2022 11:55:33 PM PDT by Morgana
Back in 2013, then-MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry drew attention to the abortion-on-demand crowd in Texas by putting on a pair of tampon earrings in the middle of her show. Harris-Perry is now host of a national public-radio show called The Takeaway out of WNYC Radio in New York.
On Thursday, Harris-Perry energetically compared the Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade to the Dred Scott fugitive-slave decision of 1857. It came in a segment titled “Reproductive Coercion is an American Cornerstone.” She introduced her critical race theory of abortion this way:
HARRIS-PERRY: Missouri became the first state in the nation to ban all abortions…There is an irony that Missouri so eagerly participated in the reversal of the right to choose abortion. The state the most infamous decision declaring that a group of people did not have foundational rights, Dred Scott v. Sandford. In 1857, the Supreme Court decided the case of Dred Scott, a Black man born into slavery in Virginia and living in Missouri.
She noted conservatives like Antonin Scalia have cited Dred Scott in their pro-life dissents, then added: “Since last week's decision by the court to reverse Roe v. Wade, many progressives have revived this Dred Scott conversation, but this time arguing that future generations will look back on Dobbs with the same disgust that is now reserved for Taney's 1857 opinion.”
So the slave economy of the 1850s is energetically compared to the 2020s. Harris-Perry explained “You see, it's worth noting that reproductive coercion was not just incidental in American history, it was its cornerstone, providing the inter-generational channel bondage of free labor that undergirds American wealth.”
Her expert was Dr. Deborah Gray White, a gender-studies professor at Rutgers, who explained that back then, “the increase of the slave population is dependent on Black women's wombs…it was in the economic interests of slave owners because a slave child was profitable at birth, a slave infant was worth something monetarily.”
This spurred Harris-Perry to connect her crackpot dots: “Professor Deborah Gray White reminded me that this history is neither distant nor irrelevant. It holds lessons not only for those of us descended from these enslaved Black women, but it suggests possibilities for all American women.”
As if all American women were about to be slaves because they can’t have abortions in some states.
Later on Thursday, the national public-radio show Marketplace discussed the possibility of setting up abortion clinics on Indian reservations. It was a non-starter.
They turned to abortion activist Rachael Lorenzo, who runs something called the Indigenous Women’s Fund to finance abortions for the native American women. The show reported that “tribal lands were abortion-care deserts long before this wave of anti-abortion legislation.” That’s because most of their health care is federally funded, meaning the Hyde Amendment prevents taxpayer-funded abortions.
Lorenzo even used the word “apocalypse” to describe the absence of abortions!
“We see rhetoric on social media or in the news, like, ‘Roe v. Wade [being overturned] is the end, the sky is falling,’” Lorenzo said. “But the sky has been falling for Native people specifically. We’ve been living in the apocalypse without full bodily autonomy.”
I thought the liberals were so incensed that Roe vs. Wade was precedence and settled law and could not be overturned? And then they use the example of Dred Scott???
Of course she did.
These A holes are delusional.
This isn’t 1973. If ”birthing people” can’t control their sexual habits in the 2020s, that’s on them. Very few abortions are related to rape, incest of the life of the mother and yet those are the arguments they hide behind.
It’s ridiculous isn’t it? The resolution to slavery was the democratic process that amended the constitution, not executive fiat or judicial opinion.
Actually, when people finally realize the abhorrence of abortion, Roe will be remembered as bad as Dread.
They will be TV programs talking about - “They used to kill babies, just because!”
Yep.
Don’t even care. It’s done. They lost. LOL.
Did she explain why over 40% of the babies killed are black and how that is not genocide?
R v Wade is analogous to Dred Scott.
Cognitive dissonance. The Dred Scott decision was much more like the Roe v. Wade decision, in that it was was bad law arguing from perhaps very tenuous reasoning. Because a person was held legally to be a slave in one state, and the master took the slave to a state where slavery was illegal, would have compelled the destination state not to be in compliance with its own legal code.
Rational thinking is not practiced on the Left. Raw emotions and denial of reality rule.
Are black “intellectuals” capable of making an argument without stupid gratuitous references to slavery, Jim Crow, racism, etc?
I don't think Dred Scott was ever overturned by any court.
Arguably, Lincoln “fought to free the slaves” and, according to legend, the fighting resulted in slavery being outlawed in the United States on Juneteenth 1865.
For the purpose of this post, I will ignore the 13th.
I am glad President Trump worked through the legal system to overturn Roe and didn't resort to killing millions of political opponents.
Not even close. She is not a runaway slave to be returned to her owner. Whe is free to make any decision regarding her body including having sex and getting pregnant.
The comparison to Dred Scott is that one side tried to do an end run on the democratic process by getting the courts to decide public policy. In neither case was there anything approaching a national consensus.
Also we could have a Nominee Process to generate a list of journalists who are purely propagandists from whom to pick the best as the winner.
Thus when we mention these members of the press, we could use the title Joseph Goebbels Award Winner or Joseph Goebbels Award Nominee using the Lib's plan to shame our leaders.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution”
Who is Melissa Harris-Perry and why would anybody care what she thinks?
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