Where does Amy Shumer, or anyone else, indicate they "want Black people to protest on their behalf" for reproductive rights? Is there something wrong to "correlate" controlling reproductive rights to slavery? If so, then Howard University, and other Black insititutions which submitted amicus briefs in the Dobbs case are just being "whiny" and "bratty" according to Owens. They made precisely that argument to the Supreme Court. I quote:
"After Congress prohibited the importation of slaves in 1808, slave masters — who could no longer rely on the international slave trade to replenish their labor force — gained an acute “economic incentive to govern Black women’s reproductive lives.” Female slaves were “valuable to their masters not only for their labor, but also for their ability to produce more slaves.” Given the “premium . . . placed on the slave woman’s reproductive capacity,” slave owners re-sorted to a variety of techniques to encourage “breeding:” “They rewarded pregnancy with relief from work in the field and additions of clothing and food, punished slave women who did not bear children, manipulated slave marital choices, and forced slaves to breed.”
"The value of enslaved Black women rested on their reproductive abilities. . . . Black women thus found themselves trapped in a political and social system that both denied their humanity and demanded total control of their reproductive functions. . . . Among the earliest acts of resistance by Black women was their “refus[al] to bring children into a world of interminable forced labor, where chains and floggings and sexual abuse for women were the everyday conditions of life.”
And so, according to Candace Owens am I also just being "whiny" and "bratty" when I suggest using the Thirteenth Amendment as a basis for upholding reproductive rights, since those laws are “forms of compulsory labor akin to African slavery” which the Thirteenth Amendment was meant to abolish? Butler v. Perry, 240 U.S. 328, 332 (1916).
I am disappointed that you would give any credence at all to anything Owens has to say.
