'Reconstruction teaches us that when extremist movements tell you where they are headed, you should believe them. America should not go backwards on rights yet again,' writes Christopher M. Richardson, a former U.S. diplomat. (via latimesopinion)
State legislation of abortion could easily create similar issues to the complex relationships between slave states and free states before the Civil War.
The parallels with abortion rights today are clear: A decades-long assault on previously established rights eroded them to nothing, supported by a conservative Supreme Court. Black citizens’ rights would only be regained more than 50 years after the Plessy decision, when amid the civil rights movement the Supreme Court ruled segregation to be unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education, and Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
However, the Black Reconstruction experience suffered from two hurdles that the abortion rights movement may be able to overcome. First, the Supreme Court’s action on civil rights was met by exhaustion and indifference by white moderates in the 1880s, who
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