By Dave Andrusko Each January 22 and—of course—each time there is a Supreme Court vacancy, as there is now, we read countless defenses of and criticisms of Roe v. Wade. NRLC over the decades has published hundreds of critiques, including summaries of withering,...
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Reflections on the anniversary of Dred Scott and its uncanny parallels to Roe v. Wade
By Dave Andrusko Tip of the hat to POLITICO for an excellent piece by Andrew Glass reminding us that it was this day, 161 years ago, that the Supreme Court handed down its awful Dred Scott v. Sanford decision. As Glass observes On this day in 1857, the U.S. Supreme...
Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade: Judicial abominations that besmirched our national character
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Starting last week, we began running articles from the past which relate directly [or even indirectly] to the somber realization that over 60 million unborn babies have paid the ultimate price for Roe v. Wade, Justice Blackmun’s...
Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade: Judicial abominations that besmirched our national character
By Dave Andrusko One hundred and sixty years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its disastrous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision. Like Roe v. Wade, to which pro-lifers routinely compare it, the High Court’s vote was 7-2. As PBS put it (as part of its series on the...