Posted on 10/26/2020 4:50:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Women could be sentenced to death for abortion if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, according to one Vanity Fair writer.
The Senate plans to vote to confirm Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court on October 26. In anticipation, Vanity Fair condemned President Trumps nominee for seeing a scenario in which abortion should be punishable by death. In a recent piece riddled with errors, politics correspondent Bess Levin went so far as to argue that Barretts confirmation means that women will be executed for choosing what to do with their own bodies.
The defining feature of Amy Coney Barretts Supreme Court confirmation hearing was her refusal to answer a single question that might actually reveal her opinion, Levin began on October 23.
She took particular interest in Barretts position on abortion.
In addition to her record on abortion-related cases, Barrett once wrote in one court opinion that the procedure is always immoral, Levin warned.
What Barrett actually said is a little different: That the Catholic Church recognizes abortion to be always immoral. In the link from 2017 that Levin provided as evidence, Barrett clarified that she recounted the Catholic Churchs teaching that abortion . . . is always immoral in the article in question, which she co-authored.
Furthermore, Barrett assured, my views on this or any other question will have no bearing on the discharge of my duties as a judge.
Listing her grievances, Levin also complained that Barrett signed a letter calling for the end of the barbaric Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide. Its a claim that National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru debunked earlier in October, after speaking with leaders of Right to Life Michiana, formerly St. Joseph County Right to Life.
For his part, Ponnuru acknowledged that Barrett signed a statement in 2006 reading, We, the following citizens of Michiana, oppose abortion on demand and support the right to life from fertilization to natural death.
This insert was placed by St. Joseph County Right to Life, he wrote. While it appeared next to anti-Roe v. Wade commentary from the organization the commentary that Levin referred to the signatories were asked only to approve the statement.
But Levin only moved on to her central focus: one of Barretts recent nonanswers to a written follow-up question from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), which she found extremely chilling.
The senators question read, Under an originalist theory of interpretation, would there be any constitutional problem with a state making abortion a capital crime, thus subjecting women who get abortions to the death penalty?
In her answer submitted on October 16, Barrett responded, Please see my answer to Question 100, which read, As a sitting judge and as a judicial nominee, it would not be appropriate for me to offer an opinion on abstract legal issues or hypotheticals.
Barrett provided her reasoning for these nonanswers, as Levin called them.
Consistent with the practice of other sitting judges and nominees, I have discussed my judicial philosophy during my hearing and in response to these written questions, subject to the limitations imposed by the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Barrett wrote in response to another question. As Justice Kagan explained, it is not appropriate for a judicial nominee to grade or give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to particular cases.
It would be inappropriate for me to give my personal views, she urged at another point, because I would not want any litigant to have the misimpression that my personal views would have any effect on my legal rulings.
She also referenced the Ginsburg Rule, established when the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a nominee in 1993. Her rule of no hints, no previews, no forecasts, applies to nominees for judicial office, Barrett wrote.
Some in the media agree. Earlier in October, New York Times Supreme Court Reporter Adam Liptak confirmed that Judge Barretts stance was in line with the approach of nominees since Judge Robert H. Borks answers at his 1987 confirmation hearings helped doom his nomination.
But, according to Levin, Barretts nonanswers are unique to Barrett.
Obviously, claiming that she cant answer hypothetical questions has been Barretts schtick throughout this entire process and, in some instances, it might actually be appropriate to say as much, Levin complained. But not when the question is can a state sentence a woman to death for getting an abortion, unless of course she thinks there might somehow be a scenario in which the answer is yes!
In other words, Barretts silence meant affirmation.
Barrett is expected to be confirmed for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, Levin warned, barring something crazy happening like moderate Republicans thinking maybe women shouldnt be executed for choosing what to do with their own bodies.
Levins twisting of Barretts position does a great disservice to herself and her readers by spreading misinformation and mischaracterizing the legal and pro-life spheres.
Yes, Amy Coney Barrett appears pro-life down to the very way that she lives her own life. But the pro-life movement stands for loving the unborn and their mothers. National pro-life leaders reject punishment for women who seek abortion, including Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List, who stressed in 2016 that punishment is solely for the abortionist who profits off of the destruction of one life and the grave wounding of another. Its the pro-life movement that cares for post-abortive women, with ministries like Rachels Vineyard and Silent No More Awareness.
Thats because the pro-life movement values the intrinsic worth of the human person from the moment of conception and it takes the destruction of life seriously. Levin should too.
Someone spent time, and then got paid, for this. Funny.
Do humanity a favor, and GFY, Katie.
Are women using birth control spared or do they get the chopping block, too?
:)
If she does that, she could pull off parthenogenesis and then have to wonder what to do about it.
God forbid somebody die as the result of an abortion. < / sarc>
Barret’s decision would be one out of 9 opinions submitted after reviewing evidence and facts.
>>women will be executed for choosing what to do with their own bodies.
Ask him if they should be permitted to take Trump Pills to battle Covid19.
Ask him if they should be able to sell their bodies to people who wish to have sex.
Ask him if they should be able to sell an organ instead of only “donating” one.
At least 25 million girls dead in America from abortion and the Feminazis don’t care.
You can even kill a perfectly healthy baby because it isn’t the sex you wanted to have as a child.
Pregnant women have a choice. The unborn are able to be killed because they are not yet able to give their choice and are not yet able to defend themselves.
Enough said. Correct?
I don't recall pinging you.
Exactly.
Hey, Kaslin - I was referring to the author of the article, not yourself. Apologies if there was some confusion.
Their babies are sentenced to death by people like ‘Vanity Fair’ with crap like this. Children die at the hands of abortionists, but Vanity Fair does not care.
Leftist “journalism” is beyond pathetic. I blame our universities that we’ve wasted billions on.
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