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2019-05-29 Home Front: Culture Wars
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Pregnant Woman Is Not a ‘Mother'
[Breitbart] Celebrated liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued in an opinion released Tuesday that a pregnant woman is not a "mother."

"[A] woman who exercises her constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy is not a ’mother’," Ginsburg wrote in a footnote, which in turn responded to another footnote in the 20-page concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas in the Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc. case.

As Breitbart News’ legal editor Ken Klukowski reported, the case concerned a law signed by then-Governor (now Vice President) Mike Pence of Indiana in 2016, which required that the remains of an aborted fetus (or baby) be disposed of by cremation or burial. The law also prohibited abortion on the basis of sex, race, or disability alone.

The Court upheld the first part of the law, but declined to consider the selective-abortion ban until more appellate courts had ruled on it.

In his lengthy opinion ‐ which delighted pro-life advocates, and distressed pro-choice activists ‐ Thomas wrote that "this law and other laws like it promote a State’s compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics." He traced the racist and eugenicist beliefs of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and warned that the Court would one day need to wrestle with abortion as form of racial discrimination.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-29 02:06|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Rather defies the logic of DNA testing and results, not to mention common sense. Perhaps she intended to say "no longer a mother".
Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-29 02:14||   2019-05-29 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 RBG is an activist justice who's opinions strain legal credulity. She takes the tack that "I don't need no stinking law" to support my opinions.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-05-29 09:07||   2019-05-29 09:07|| Front Page Top

#3 A Pregnant Woman Is Not a ‘Mother'

yeah? And so?
Posted by Jogum Hupease3807 2019-05-29 09:23||   2019-05-29 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 A dried up old hag isn't a human either.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-05-29 09:47||   2019-05-29 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 What a pregnant woman is, is "with child." It's an old-timey saying, but you get the idea...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-05-29 09:52||   2019-05-29 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 they are sure as hell on the way to becoming one though
Posted by chris 2019-05-29 12:27||   2019-05-29 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 more interestingly to me was that RBG said that requiring burial and/or cremation of aborted fetuses would put an undue burden on women

since the abortion would have already taken place, I can't see how a burden then appears retroactively but then again I'm not a Supreme court justice
Posted by lord garth 2019-05-29 15:20||   2019-05-29 15:20|| Front Page Top

#8 How approprïate when they tell her they can't find her name hn the book of Life on "judgement" day.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-05-29 16:31||   2019-05-29 16:31|| Front Page Top

#9 WTF? OK, well Ruthy isn't an upright biped carbon based lifeform ether.
Posted by Woodrow 2019-05-29 17:16||   2019-05-29 17:16|| Front Page Top

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