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Sotomayor compares fetus to brain dead person, says fetal movement doesn't prove consciousness
Fox News ^ | Dec 1, 2021 | Andrew Miller

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."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; fetus; life; scotus; sotomayor; tokenhispanic
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Sotomayor is a vile racist and daughter of Satan who is sympathetic to the systematic murder of unborn babies.

Once it’s all over, Hell will be filled with murderous creeps like her.


81 posted on 12/01/2021 7:08:58 PM PST by Prole ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Place her argument in the dictionary under “Filth”.


82 posted on 12/01/2021 7:09:41 PM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Place her argument in the dictionary under “Filth”.


83 posted on 12/01/2021 7:09:50 PM PST by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Another Leftist sicko.


84 posted on 12/01/2021 7:11:42 PM PST by madison10
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Death of the human form comes AFTER life, not before birth.

How did she get through law school? Seriously. These two aren’t the same. 2+2 doesn’t =5


85 posted on 12/01/2021 7:24:31 PM PST by GeorgianaCavendish (Man shall not serve two masters, for he will love one and hate the other.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

President Biden barely shows consciousness


86 posted on 12/01/2021 7:30:02 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Sotomayor should be Housekeeping Supervisor at the downtown Hyatt instead of being a moronic leftard on the SCOTUS bench.


87 posted on 12/01/2021 7:34:46 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?; All
Institutionally indoctrinated Sotomayor seems to be ignoring that, in stark contrast to the early states famously amending the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to expressly protect basic rights, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the politically correct, post-17th Amendment ratification, Democratic vote-winning "right" to murder unborn children.

Since Congress has no express constitutional abortion protection amendment to justify 14th Amendment-based laws to protect abortion, laws providing abortion funding unconstitutional imo, neither has the Supreme Court any constitutionally enumerated abortion protections to throw at the states.

With all due respect to family and supporters of the late Terri Schiavo for example, note the misguided Supreme Court's double standards with respecting 10th Amendment-protected state power to make euthanasia laws on one hand, while blatantly ignoring state power to prohibit abortion on the other hand.

It's no surprise that lawless Democrats fight tooth and nail to try to maintain a pro-abortion Supreme Court justice majority in order to stay in power since there is no express abortion protection like 2nd Amendment-protected gun rights for example.

In fact, Sotomayor also blatantly ignores that the pre-FDR era Supreme Court had condemned interpolations of Constitution which is arguably what the Roe v. Wade justices did when they wrongly legislated from the bench the so-called "right" to abortion.

“3. The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition.” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.

88 posted on 12/01/2021 7:35:13 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

There is brain activity in the womb before the full term of a pregnancy...the argument is completely nonsensical. Not that I wasn’t expecting such brilliant “thought” from the “wise latina”. How did she ever get a law degree, aren’t those supposed to be difficult or something?


89 posted on 12/01/2021 7:39:44 PM PST by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

She will have to account for her viewpoints to her Creator some day .
That will be a irrevocably terrible day for her.


90 posted on 12/01/2021 7:40:47 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clinton's )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Based on her logic, I guess being a wise, latina, supreme court justice doesn’t mean you aren’t brain dead, either.


91 posted on 12/01/2021 7:43:58 PM PST by curious7
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To: Vigilanteman

intercourse stopped the day I got married... hmm


92 posted on 12/01/2021 7:46:11 PM PST by Bikkuri ("Anyone who trusts this government hasn't been paying attention." <Hat tip to DJ Macwow>)
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To: OVERTIME

We need to fix that problem..


93 posted on 12/01/2021 7:47:08 PM PST by Bikkuri ("Anyone who trusts this government hasn't been paying attention." <Hat tip to DJ Macwow>)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yes, indeed.

Leftists take the fun out of everything. They need to be purged.


94 posted on 12/01/2021 7:50:56 PM PST by curious7
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

Excellent point. Should be made more often.


95 posted on 12/01/2021 7:53:57 PM PST by curious7
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To: Gay State Conservative

Capturing that in a photo would be instrumental (inside jar). It displays scale...and detail. ...powerful, I’ve never pictured it at that level. Thanks for sharing.


96 posted on 12/01/2021 7:58:25 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I would be willing to bet that this female knows about the proof that a womb-bound baby has been shown to be able to learn at 22 weeks gestation. So she is lying to promote an evil agenda which her dead soul prefers over the truth. She is an evil person of power.


97 posted on 12/01/2021 8:04:08 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Astonishing that Sotomayor is using her own beliefs about science to guide her judgment, since she is simply flat wrong.

There is a huge difference between a spinal reflex, and a brain-determined action. By definition, brain death means no brain-stem responses. The motions of first-trimester fetuses include brain-stem responses from independently regulated heartbeats to full-body repositioning.


98 posted on 12/01/2021 8:05:08 PM PST by dangus
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To: reasonisfaith

It’s an insane argument. I’m stunned tbh. A comparison to somebody on their death-bed vs a newly forming human? IS THAT going to be the argument from the left? Seriously?

Ethics -101 should answer that.

You know what...I’m going to grab some popcorn.


99 posted on 12/01/2021 8:06:12 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: EvilCapitalist

She’s a crazy bitch.

I guess she has never given birth.


100 posted on 12/01/2021 8:10:09 PM PST by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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