This morning, MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan defended Rick Santorum’s remark about President Obama’s stance on abortion, saying his “facts are right” and “Santorum is saying that you’ve constricted it and taken that right of personhood and life away from a whole class of folks” by not considering unborn children people who are protected by the Constitution. And that “was exactly what was done to African-Americans for 250 years, and you go to Dred Scott, they are not persons under the Constitution.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=115583