More on abortion and Dred Scott

P6 has a good analysis round-up.

That Bush whipped out such an extremely specific, if weird, argument against abortion during the debates tells me one thing--he already has someone in mind to appoint and that person intends to overturn Roe v Wade with this argument. Let everyone you speak to know that Bush promised to appoint an anti-abortion judge to the Supreme Court.

The arrogance of anti-choicers is breath-taking. They are out there day in and day out fighting to repeal women's rights (first to an abortion and as we all know now, next to use female-controlled contraception like the pill) and then they turn around and piously compare themselves to those who struggled against slavery and racism for centuries. For shame.

People who struggled against slavery and racism fought a long, hard, dangerous struggle that they are still fighting today. Thousands upon thousands of people have lost their lives fighting for racial justice. I realize that hardcore anti-choicers are frustrated that they don't get to just write laws punishing the sluts for fucking, but I would hardly put their struggles in the same league as everyone from John Brown to Martin Luther King, Jr. who died fighting for justice.