Roe Vs Wade Overturned

[*michaelsean*]

(12-08-2022, 06:36 PM)Dill Wrote: Depends on which states rights people you are referring to. 

I have defended states rights on many occasion, but I don't think of myself as a "states' rights person"
belonging to some movement with a plan for rolling back the New Deal and "big government."

I don't want to own black people, or anyone, for that matter.

But there are people who do think of themselves as "states rights people."
For example, a "Tenther," one of those Republicans who emphasizes the 10th 
Amendment to return control of gun, labor, environmental and many other laws to the states, 
with the hoped for result of nullifying progressive federal regulations, allowing states to
retain more regressive policies. 

Are referring to them when you say "states rights people"?  

If so, even then I would say a significant majority probably do not want to own black people,
though they may favor regulation which greys the line between free and slave labor of any color. 

The point here, though, is that historical references to the actual development of states rights doctrine from a 
time when people did want to own slaves does not automatically burden current states rightsers 
with support of or desire for slavery.  

And I haven't seen anyone in this forum actually claim that current states' rightsers are pro slavery.
So far we have one post REMINDING us whence the doctrine came. No one is actually accused
of being pro slavery for supporting states rights today.  

   

I’m not referring to any states rights people in particular. Read the comment and let me know if you agree with it or not.