Today is Juneteenth in the United States. On 19 June 1865, U.S. troops came to Texas to enforce the 1863 Presidential Emancipation Proclamation setting all slaves free. Within three more years, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was approved by a majority of States, ensuring citizenship to all Americans, including former slaves, and protection of inalienable human rights to every person within the United States. Joshua Craddock wrote a Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy article documenting the parallel history of protecting babies in the womb and approving the Fourteenth Amendment. Here is Part 3 of excerpts.
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