A day before the anniversary of Roe vs Wade, the Supreme Court has given another major court decision: a 63 year old law which forbade corporations and unions from directly funding political campaign advertisements, as with later campaign finance reforms, was struck down on the basis that it went against the Constitution because it limited free speech. This time, many of the people who rightfully decried Roe vs Wade have applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling. The sad irony of the situation is easy to see.
Now corporations have been given the Constitutional rights of persons, while babies are denied this. The questions I have with this are all over the place, but I think the most important one is philosophical: what is this telling us about the United States and its notion of persons? Why can corporations, which do not follow any traditional definition of the person, be given the rights of a person? What exactly is a person according to the United States?
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