When Women Couldn’t Vote, and the Battle to Maintain Slavery Raged
My question to those who adopted the mantra, “Make America Great Again,” is to name a year in which they believe America to have been great. Then, we could compare and see if America was indeed greater. I’ve never gotten an answer to that question. One inference is they didn’t want to have the debate because it might not turn out their way. Another is they don’t know enough history about any other time to be able to engage in the discussion.
The state of Arizona recently passed a 15-week ban on abortion, following the Dobbs decision that allowed the states to do as they will on the issue of abortion and overriding Roe v. Wade. Before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal, Arizona had a law on the books from 1864 that was almost a total abortion ban. When presented with the issue, the Arizona Supreme Court decided the 1864 law could be enforced, picking 1864 as greater than the current view of the Arizona state legislature and the Governor that signed the 15-week ban, which itself disregarded the will of the people in Arizona who are opposed to either restriction on abortion. To my knowledge, the Arizona Supreme Court did what no others have in setting 1864 as the baseline for greatness. I can now make that comparison to allow you…