Stenberg v. Carhart has to be the cruelest decision rendered by the
Supreme Court of the United States since Dred Scott. Indeed, it is
crueler, for in his infamous decision and provocation in 1857, Chief
Justice Taney never denied that Negro slaves were persons; he asserted only
that they were not and could never be citizens.... But under current law,
the unborn aren't even persons. If slaves were but property, the unborn
are... nothing. No state legislature, no popular referendum, nothing can
protect them from the most gruesome or painful of deaths. So it is
written---in Stenberg v. Carhart. -- Paul Greenberg
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