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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmy Coney Barrett shocked Idaho law preventing a doctor from abortion unless mother was dying now.
Amy Coney Barrett shocked during oral arguments that Idaho law would keep a doctor from performing an abortion unless the mother was immediately dying right at the exact moment shes at the hospital.
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RandySF
(59,484 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,694 posts)I'm betting it wasn't on her legal authorship.
hlthe2b
(102,448 posts)at the party and philosophy that "brung her there."
She seems honestly astonished at a lot of things--including yesterday--hearing the idiocy of her conservative male colleagues.
While I can't get past the urgent need to do something about/dilute the impacts of Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Colorado's shame, Gorsuch (We are stuck with Roberts for a while), there is a minute chance that ACB MIGHT evolve even a tiny bit. (Then again my hopes are frequently dashed when I extend even a modicum of benefit-of-the-doubt toward any conservative).
viva la
(3,351 posts)are leaving because if they do their jobs, they might be put in prison.
I'm think that she, unlike the conservative men on the court, cares at least a bit about the need for women to have health care.
soldierant
(6,940 posts)Gorsuch, on the other hand, has one spot that isn't blind. And that is NAtive American rights, particularly tribal rights. On everything else he's a complete waste. But,, as long as we could be sure of him getting outvoted on everything else, I would let him stay for that one seeing spot.
Hekate
(90,912 posts)
a swing vote on the issue of womens health care. I really, really hope she does.
Those 5 men are theocratic *holes. She was raised to believe they are The Authority but her lived experience tells her something else.
ms liberty
(8,614 posts)We can only hope.
onecaliberal
(32,940 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,694 posts)actually allows leopards to eat people's faces.
Girard442
(6,087 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,552 posts)PlutosHeart
(1,295 posts)Traurigkeit
(306 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,552 posts)NanaCat
(1,358 posts)You are neither in a position to make that judgment (my understanding is that only the deity can do that), nor in a position to know the woman well enough to say, one way or another.
I despise the woman, but I wouldn't dream of presuming to judge her religiosity or the sincerity of it, because I am honest enough to say I don't know her. I know things about her, but I do not know her enough to speak to her private views.
Neither do you. it's extremely dishonest to make such an assertion about her when you do not know her.
That's why this is your logical fallacy:
yardwork
(61,729 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,552 posts)And understand women are left to die or suffer permanent injury.
100% certain she can read.
Baitball Blogger
(46,771 posts)how words on a page turn into action and consequences?
drmeow
(5,031 posts)beyond a religious and political bias, that's how. She prayed her way to the top.
3Hotdogs
(12,442 posts)And that's good enough for me.
hatrack
(59,594 posts)Like she didn't know what her vote would lead to.
Fuck her, and fuck her Husband/Lord and fuck the Heritage Foundation.
tanyev
(42,642 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,510 posts)Piss on each of the Subversive Six.
Iris
(15,673 posts)Warpy
(111,397 posts)but doesn't know the first thing about medicine SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING DOCTOR.
You'd think that simple concept would have sunk in a long time ago, but you'd be shocked at how many people think they're qualified, or if they're not, Dr. Google will provide.
lindysalsagal
(20,765 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,469 posts)shows why supreme court justices should have no fucking say at all in health care matters.
Rhiannon12866
(206,372 posts)Medical decisions for women throughout the country. He or she could educate the others.
Vinca
(50,319 posts)intheflow
(28,509 posts)So shes never lived in a world where women faced such disregard for their health. Probably grew up hearing that it wasnt bad in the past, stories of botched abortions and women dying were exaggerated by people who want to kill babies. She didnt realize Roe is about saving womens lives because it was a given during Roe that womens lives would be saved over nonviable fetuses. She was focused on the babies because she had the luxury and privilege under Roe to not consider the breadth and depth of how her vote would impact womens health. I think shes starting to figure it out and we watching her deprogramming on this in real time.
NowsTheTime
(715 posts).... we actually see her voting with Dems on some issues...
getting back to a fair Scotus is too important
Srkdqltr
(6,357 posts)Are so out of touch. No matter her point of view she should be aware.
ismnotwasm
(42,021 posts)Shes not shocked. Not sure why shes pretending to be
mercuryblues
(14,550 posts)Any woman who has had children know that a pregnancy can go bad. She has 7 children, 2 of whom are adopted. She voted knowing this.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,837 posts)As people in the elite usually are. Now, MAYBE a glimmer of recognition of the world outside her mahogany-paneled domain. If her shock is indeed genuine, she still has a looong way to go.
And Amy? Just so you know, the process of dying these women are required to enter before they can receive care - frequently cant be reversed like you reversed 50 years of precedent.