Posted on 12/02/2019 4:42:12 PM PST by Morgana
More than 350 lawyers and legal professionals who had abortions filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court Monday as part of the latest landmark abortion case.
"My hope is that my classmate on the Supreme Court will not want to demonize me," Claudia Hammerman, a partner at the prestigious law firm Paul, Weiss, told ABC News. Hammerman is also the lead signer of the brief and a Harvard Law School alumnae. "I was smart and I deserved my career and I deserved to be able to give it my all and to become a mother when I was fully, emotionally, psychologically, and in terms of resources prepared to become the best mother I could be."
The legal professionals included attorneys, law professors, public defenders, prosecutors, retired judges, current law students and a senior attorney with the Department of Justice, who joined the brief anonymously and "on behalf of herself and all the other lawyers working in the highest echelons of government who have had abortions." Two MacArthur "Genius" Fellows are also among those who signed on.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in June Medical Services vs. Gee, an abortion case out of Louisiana, on March 4, 2020. In question is a Louisiana law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges with a nearby hospital. A similar law, out of Texas, was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in 2016.
Amicus -- or "friends of the court" -- briefs are filed on behalf of people who are not formally part of a case but who support one side. On Monday, several briefs were filed in the June Medical Services case urging the Supreme Court to strike down the law.
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My hope is that my classmate on the Supreme Court will not want to demonize me,” is very improper pleadling...
however, I would never wish to demonize her
but if it were an unnecessary ‘elective’ abortion I am all for imprisoning her!
You say you’re pro-choice. Lady, your choice ended when you spread your legs.
We are living in some strange times.
I don’t get it. How does a legal case on abortion demonize anyone? We aren’t personalizing anything. What am I missing?
I’m sure she knows what causes pregnancy. I bet she also has some clues about what behaviors can guarantee you won’t have an unwanted pregnancy.
And it reasonates with soccer moms.
Although I can not and will not broad brush EITHER side of the abortion argument - it is possible to have circumstances that may require it..BUT definitely NOT as a birth control instrument....
BUT
I have no problem ‘wishing’ that ALL of the PRO ABORTION wing nuts had parents that agree with their theory back when it counted.
(if it were an unnecessary elective abortion as so many of them are these days) she’s “demonized” herself
this mortal evil must be stopped!
She was too smart to take a pill.
Hate to ask, but how many of these "legal professionals" were men???
What if some male reckoned that involvement with HER would take too much time and energy, and so he decided to hire somebody to dismember her and sell her body parts. For the sake of continuing his stellar career unimpeded by unwanted personal "stuff".
Would that be ethical? Hmmm?
Sounds like they are gonna lose.
You had your five minutes of lust that created a child that you promptly destroyed. That child is in Heaven playing happily at the feet of Jesus. You will meet that child someday but possibly only in passing.
Fatima they already have.
“”I was smart “
evidently not smart enough to not get pregant when she “wasn’t fully ready” and really didn’t want to.
What other choice would he have?
I wondered the same thing.
I’ve heard tell it just falls on a woman.
>> and to become a mother when I was fully [ready]
But you decided to become a homicidal, selfish scumbag instead.
I agree. I used the word motherhood because the author used the word mother. But you are right, being pregnant and giving birth and rearing the child is no guarantee that a woman will be graced with the blessing of motherhood.
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