Posted on 12/01/2021 5:28:15 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the idea that a fetus that has the ability to move and react to pain is a human life that should be protected from abortion.
"Virtually every state defines a brain death as death," Sotomayor, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said during oral arguments in a potential landmark abortion rights case Wednesday, as the state of Mississippi defended an abortion restriction law that directly challenges Roe v. Wade.
"Yet, the literature is filled with episodes of people who are completely and utterly brain dead responding to stimuli," Sotomayor continued. "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil. There are spontaneous acts by dead brain people. So I don't think that a response to -- by a fetus necessarily proves that there's a sensation of pain or that there's consciousness."
Sotomayor also said that she believes the idea that a fetus is a human life is a "religious view."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“The standard liberal position needs to be able to point to some such line, because liberals usually hold that it is permissible to kill an embryo or fetus but not a baby. I have argued that the life of a fetus (and even more plainly, of an embryo) is of no greater value than the life of a nonhuman animal at a similar level of rationality, self-awareness, capacity to feel and so on, and that because no fetus is a person, no fetus has the same claim to life as a person. Now we have to face the fact that these arguments apply to the newborn baby as much as to the fetus. A week-old baby is not a rational and self-aware being, and there are many non-human animals whose rationality, self-awareness, capacity to feel and so on, exceed that of a human baby a week or a month old. If, for the reasons I have given, the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either.”
Peter Singer, Princeton University “Bioethicist”
I could imagine Hellen Keller saying “Hello Justice Sonia Sotomayor, we should talk/“
And she’s a perfect example.
I am beginning to believe in reincarnation.
Joseph Mengele is alive and well on the SC!
Definitely has been deceived.
Sotomayor is quite the culture of death zealot.
An Evil Latina.
And people wonder why things are the way they are. SMH.
Agreed.
At some point it’s going to be imperative that we roast over an open fire this Matriarchy which rules over us
Thus because life is precious, the law must err on the side of life and, therefore, individual rights are to be protected from conception and through the stages of fetal development when the individual is most vulnerable.
How the hell would she know? She’s never been pregnant, and never will be.
We weren't allowed to for RBG.
It has to be the dumbest argument ever.
You can argue many things but this is not one of them.
A simple brain scan would reveal that a fetus is capable of serving on the Supreme Court.
That’s profound.
On the floor were large vessels containing hearts,lungs,livers,brains,etc. On the walls were smaller ones containing smaller things.One of the vessels caught my eye.
It was a large pickle jar type of thing containing about a half dozen fetuses in a clear liquid...probably formalin. It was before Roe v Wade so I assume they were stillborn. They were all about the size of my thumb and they were all *perfectly* formed.There was no way to mistake them for anything other than tiny little human beings.I could see one of them so clearly that I could tell that he/she needed his/her fingernails clipped.
That was about 50 years ago...and it's an image that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
but even the braindead, can’t survive without a heart!
wait, she doesn’t have one... er either
Yes ago = years ago
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