When we celebrate Juneteenth, we don’t just celebrate the end of slavery in America. We celebrate the beginning of black families living freely and safely. We celebrate the right of black Americans to build families — and, in doing so, to build futures. Post-Dobbs, it’s become popular to argue that racial justice and the right to abort preborn children are inextricably linked. But the pro-abortion agenda and true racial justice — the sort of racial justice we celebrate on June 19 — couldn’t be more opposed.
On June 19, 1865, about 250,000 enslaved black Texans finally learned they’d been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation. The order had legally gone into effect more than two years earlier, but the struggle to subdue Confederate territories continued.
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