If We Had “Let the States Decide” in 1861, We’d Still Have Slavery
Supreme Court “justice” on abortion rights is legalized discrimination
When the Supreme Court overthrew Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, they tried to deny culpability for endangering women’s lives by saying they wanted to leave it up to individual states to decide whether or not to allow abortion. That might sound reasonable, if you don’t know U.S. history. But in reality, leaving decisions to the states is a good way to legitimize discrimination.
If we’d “left it up to the states” in the Civil War period, we’d still have slavery.
When we “left it up to the states” in the Jim Crow era, racial discrimination was fully legal in the South and everywhere else.
Although the Supreme Court made a righteous decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which disallowed the “separate but equal” doctrine (which they wrote in the first place) used to justify racial segregation in schools, more often, that court has been a tool of oppression.
In fact, looking over its history, it might more accurately be called the Supremacist Court.
The nine worst U.S. Supreme Court decisions of all time as compiled by FindLaw.com include six that legalize some kind of supremacy and…
