The Pollyanna cluelessness of Amy Coney Barrett’s questions, and the arrogant cluelessness of the other conservative Supreme Court justices is way past infuriating.
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“Birth control is legal throughout the US.” Such a cogent argument… S/N
None of it is fail safe, and much of it is risky to women’s health.
(Male birth control medication, much milder side effects than female birth control medication, has been determined by the FDA to have too severe side effects to be approved. ...)
My then wife, mother of my children, and I got pregnant despite using three forms of birth control. Fortunately, abortion was available.
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Yes, a woman can drop off a baby for the state to deal with
AFTER SHE HAS BEEN FORCED TO CARRY A PREGNANCY TO TERM.
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Golly-gee, Amy. Isn’t it just the most wonderful thing to be pregnant in America where giving birth is 100 times more risky than it is in New Zealand or Norway. Birth is as risky in the US as it is in third world countries, more so if you are poor.
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The dangers of pregnancy were brought home to our family this past month. Mother to be developed severe high blood pressure. It had been excessively high her whole pregnancy, but suddenly a routine checkup turned into an ambulance trip to a specialty hospital. Preeclampsia skating on the edge of eclampsia. Mother and fetus at extreme risk. Unusually excellent NICU care facilitated a few more critical days of safely keeping the fetus “in the oven” before elective C-section to avoid the probability of an emergency C-section. Mother and child are doing well but child will be in NICU a while longer. Very few women giving birth in the US are privileged to receive the level of care my family member got and it still was scary as hell.
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Who is going to pay for this unwanted risk and extreme expense in the forced birth situations this radical Supreme Court seems intent to rule in favor of?
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Why wasn’t involuntary servitude an argument before the court? Forced birth is involuntary servitude.
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Why wasn’t the issue of unequal treatment under the law brought up? No contemplated ruling by the Supreme Court this term will affect all women. It will not ban abortion in the US. Any ruling by this Court this year will only inconvenience rich women, and a bit more, middle class women. It will however severely impact girls, young women, and poor women who do not have the means to travel to places where they can get abortions.
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And nothing was even discussed (so far as I have heard) about rape, incest, and other abuse, and how forced birth simply compounds the trauma.
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Or the several Constitutional Protections that should ensure the right to abortion.
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Any ruling by this court will not be about morality. Merely about control.
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Who are the justices who will be making the decision about forcing women to carry pregnancies to term?
Amy Coney Barrett has next to no jurisprudence experience.
Brett Kavanaugh committed perjury (though not charged for it), and is accused of sexual misconduct and attempted rape, none of which was adequately investigated.
Justice Thomas was accused of sexual misconduct by a credible witness during confirmation hearings. Thomas was also one of the justices who decided to ignore Florida law and was part of the narrow majority that appointed Bush the Lesser as President.
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This does not even touch on the legal logic inconsistencies of the radical so called conservatives on this Supreme Court.