I tend to think of myself as a person. I’d hazard a guess that most, maybe all, American women consider themselves to be actual human beings, too.
The U.S. Supreme Court said that’s what we are, although it took the court until 1971 to say so.
Justice Antonin Scalia still doesn’t believe it. In an interview in this month’s California Lawyer magazine, he said that the 14th Amendment means only men when it says states can’t deny “any person” equal protection under the law.
And where it says states can’t “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law,” it actually means “any man,” according to Scalia.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-07/women-aren-t-people-under-scalia-s-constitution-commentary-by-ann-woolner.html
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