Dred Scott's Great-Great Granddaughter Holds Pro-Life View on Abortion
St. Louis, MO (LifeNews.com) -- The great-great granddaughter of Dred Scott says she opposes abortion and believes the Supreme Court should overturn Roe v. Wade in the same way it reversed itself in the landmark civil rights case. Just as the 1857 high court case ruled black Americans were not persons, the 1973 decision said unborn children aren't people with a right to life.
In the decision in the Scott case, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court and seven of the nine justices agreed that Dred Scott should remain a slave.
Taney ruled that as a slave, Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States, and therefore had no right to bring suit in the federal courts on any matter....