Amy Coney Barrett Defends Striking Down Roe v. Wade In New Book
Abortion "lacked long-standing protection in American law," Barrett argues in her upcoming memoir.
“The evidence does not show that the American people have traditionally considered the right to obtain an abortion so fundamental to liberty that it ‘goes without saying’ in the Constitution,” Barrett writes, according to CNN. “In fact, the evidence cuts in the opposite direction. Abortion not only lacked long-standing protection in American law – it had long been forbidden.”
That’s a similar sentiment to what Justice Samuel Alito expressed in his Dobbs opinion: that “a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the nation’s history and traditions.”
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | September 3, 2025 4:47 PM
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Alito failed to mention that during America’s long period of banning abortion, the country also banned women from voting, owning property or running for office. And in his opinion, Alito repeatedly cited a jurist from the 1600s who had women executed for witchcraft.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 2, 2025 10:32 PM
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Dumb, bigoted, political hacks who now sit on the Supreme Court. They don't follow the law. They rule with a right-wing political agenda.
And completely immoral assholes that they are, these right-wing justices lie and lie and lie during their confirmation hearings. And when they don't lie, the dodge, obfuscate and deny which wipes away their credibility and conscience.
Including Amy Coney Barrett, one of the worst of the bunch.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 2, 2025 10:37 PM
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She is a terrible person and is attempting to cloak her religious beliefs behind the illogical legal argument: "abortion has only been legal in the USA for a relatively short time" so it made sense to her to get rid of that protection for women.
Terrible person, worse woman.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 2, 2025 10:38 PM
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Hey, Cunts on the Right, you all voted for this shit. Every single one of you voted for this fuckery. Don't pretend to be shocked now.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 2, 2025 10:40 PM
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In a summary of beliefs Barrett expressed in her book, CNN reports the judge said Roe “usurped the will of the American people.” Barrett wrote that the 1973 decision was “getting ahead” of Americans. “(T)he Court’s role is to respect the choices that the people have agreed upon, not to tell them what they should agree to,” she also said, according to CNN.
However, polling shows that 63% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and just 36% say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Those figures have been consistent for the past several years, pollsters say.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 2, 2025 10:43 PM
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Concerned yet, Shaky Sue? Deeply concerned? Even alarmed at how everyone is laughing at your fuckery nonstop now and forever?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 2, 2025 10:49 PM
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Right-wing authoritarians on the Supreme Court: Disgraceful fucking liars.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 2, 2025 10:53 PM
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Fucking cunt. She sounds stupid.
Go be quiet and cook,bitch, like your Bible tells you to.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 2, 2025 10:58 PM
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Here's to something terrible happening to her ovaries.
Something very terrible.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 2, 2025 11:29 PM
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[quote] the judge said Roe “usurped the will of the American people.” Barrett wrote that the 1973 decision was “getting ahead” of Americans.
Isn't that the ENTIRE POINT of the Supreme Court?? To not let mob rule overrun the country?
The Supreme Court should not ever be looking at opinion polls or anything like it.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 2, 2025 11:34 PM
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Newspapers in the colonial period were full of ads for abortifacients. There were all sorts of folk remedies that involved drinking tea made from herbs that could bring on abortions. And of course most midwives could also provide abortions. It was so ubiquitous it was invisible, folk wisdom that was passed from woman to woman down the generations.
The conservatives on the court are inhuman and full of shit.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 3, 2025 3:22 AM
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She probably resents women who have remained childless thanks to abortifacients, considering the likely state of her stretched-out seven-baby vadge.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 3, 2025 3:41 AM
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Lying cunt said "Roe is settled law" in her confirmation.
Lying fucking cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 3, 2025 3:49 AM
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She gave birth to a retard.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 3, 2025 3:52 AM
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But how does she defend constantly giving into Trump despite the fact that the Framers very clearly did not intend the President to be a King?
The Supreme Court's abortion decision can always be overruled eventually with a change in the composition of the Court. But the Trump decisions could very well lead to a dictatorship that destroys the country entirely. The justices, well, six of them, seem to think they're going to be exempt from Trump's attacks, but that's not how dictatorships work, as they might find out soon.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 3, 2025 4:12 AM
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But she has “good genes”!
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 3, 2025 4:17 AM
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R14, newspaper ads do not have any legal force nor can they establish legal precedent.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 3, 2025 4:26 AM
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You stupid bitch R20, R14's point was that abortion and the popular demand for it have been part of American culture for literal centuries and thus were very much part of the "will of the American people."
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 3, 2025 4:37 AM
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But they can invent Presidential Immunity out of thin air.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 3, 2025 4:44 AM
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She should be called Justice Ofjesse. A submissive brood mare and handmaiden to patriarchal control of women's bodies.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 3, 2025 10:59 AM
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She was in some weird Catholic cult. I can't believe people expected better from her.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 3, 2025 11:22 AM
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R6 - when she says the will of the people, she means the white Christian nationalists.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 3, 2025 11:30 AM
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"Barrett writes in her upcoming memoir that the "complicated moral debate" about abortion sets it apart from other rights that have broad public support and are considered traditionally fundamental. Those rights, Barrett said, include "the rights to marry, have sex, procreate, use contraception," according to CNN."
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 3, 2025 11:40 AM
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Originalists cherry-pick the history that suits their goals
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 3, 2025 1:57 PM
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There is no moral debate about abortion. Just because some crazy people on the right have created a slogan that “life begins at at conception” doesn’t suddenly make it a moral dilemma.
Abortion has been documented since ancient times (There are abortion instruments from the Roman era in museums). Women were getting sick and dying when abortion was illegal in the US (and it’s happening again now).
The right to an abortion was about women getting a safe abortion.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 3, 2025 2:01 PM
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Barrett writes like it’s some black and white debate and that it’s obvious abortion isn’t a right.
Who cares how abortion was treated in the past. Women couldn’t vote so their opinions didn’t matter back then
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 3, 2025 2:02 PM
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Mein Fuhrer.
Mein thread was more original.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | September 3, 2025 2:04 PM
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I’m glad I got an abortion!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 3, 2025 4:47 PM
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