"This is a very good piece ... tracing a 1662 slavery case to the 2022 Dobbs decisions ..."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

This is a very good piece by
@ProfJLMorgan
tracing a 1662 slavery case to the 2022 Dobbs decisions, and eviscerating the jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas in the process. And it's a tight 1100 words.

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@jbouie
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Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and 'Dobbs v. Jackson'
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a

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[underpants]

1. 👀

Reading later thanks

[Scrivener7]

2. It IS a very good piece. Thank you.

“To reverse the downward spiral of social decadence and patriarchal decay, conservatives must undo the liberal culture of rights, starting with the unenumerated rights of substantive due process.”

[Farmer-Rick]

3. Thanks for posting

This is very insightful and interesting reading.

But I have one quibble. This notion that the unborn fetus is more valuable than the mother.

Not to reduce people to animals (even though that is exactly what slavery does) but as a famer to me the mother is more valuable than the unborn. With my sheep, I put allot of time and effort to raise a ewe to be healthy and productive. The ewe will give me lambs for decades if I care for her properly.

The unborn lamb is an unknown quantity. It could be a small thin creature that does not grow quickly. Or it could be a ram that must be moved away from the ewes requiring more resources. It could be a ewe that doesn't care for her lambs well, needing me to feed her lambs, using up more resources.

No, a good healthy ewe is worth so much more than the unborn lamb. I will always sacrifice the lamb to save the ewe, if I have to make that decision.

So, I would think in slavery it would be the same. But unlike with sheep, human society is a patriarchy that has used female slavery, the root of polygamy, to enrich men for millennium. So putting the fetus in a superior, sanctified, holy position, much more important than a mere mother, is second nature.

But it is a resource wasting, unproductive and stupid idea.