Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett repeatedly suggested today that the option of giving a baby up for adoption removed the need for abortion
The Supreme Court’s liberal and conservative justices clashed Wednesday during arguments over Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, with each member of the six-justice conservative supermajority expressing openness to significantly paring back or completely overturning abortion rights protections guaranteed underArguments by the lawyers for abortion rights groups and the Biden administration that the state’s ban would turn back the clock on women’s rights found little favor among the court’s...
“Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an appointee of President Barack Obama. “If people actually believe that it’s all political, how will we survive? How will the court survive?”
“Those are some of the most important in the court’s history and the court overruled precedent,” said Kavanaugh. The current arguments of abortion rights advocates not to disturb precedent would have profoundly changed the course of American history if the justices had followed them then, the Donald Trump appointee said.
“Why don’t the safe haven laws take care of that problem?” asked Barrett, who adopted two of her seven children.
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