As all but two Republican senators buckle in for a last-minute, whiplash-inducing Supreme Court appointment, Trump and his Heritage Foundation cronies have reportedly coalesced around a frontrunner: Amy Coney Barrett, an appeals court judge with a dubious track record on abortion.\n
“I think the question of whether people can get very late-term abortions, you know, how many restrictions can be put on clinics, I think that would change,” sheBut more telling than any of these statements is that anti-abortion groups, conservatives, and Trump are all excited about the prospect of appointing her, which suggests they’re all fairly confident she’ll use her judicial power to gut
federal abortion rights.“She is the perfect combination of brilliant jurist and a woman who brings the argument to the court that is potentially the contrary to the views of the sitting women justices,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the national anti-abortion group Susan B.
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