The earliest feminist battles were fought against the legal chattel status
of women. Many feminists were among those who overturned the U.S. Supreme
Court decision of 1857, that a black slave was 'property' and not entitled
to the protection of the Constitution.... Yet when the Court ruled in 1973
that the fetus was the property of its mother, and not entitled to the
protection of the Constitution, 'liberated' women danced in the
streets. -- Daphne de Jong, "Feminism and Abortion: The Great
Inconsistency"
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