“The Freedom of Southern Manhood Reposes Upon the Institution of Slavery.” Jefferson Davis
Though most Southern Whites who fought in the ranks of the Confederate armies were not slaveholders.
“The Freedom of Women Reposes Upon the Institution of Abortion.” Abortion Feminists
Though most American women had never had an abortion before a Texas Millionairess and two women lawyers recruited a poor white woman whom they dispised and who didn’t have an abortion to stand as the symbolic figurehead of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton in 1973.
Sanford v. Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade have some striking similarities.