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Amy Coney Barrett received money for speaking several times in front of a program run by a deeply conservative Christian organization that helped create the law at the center of a SCOTUS case thats threatening to eradicate legalized abortion across the US
Amy Coney Barrett Made Money Off Anti-Abortion Group Going After Roe v. Wade
The Alliance Defending Freedom has emerged as the powerhouse legal arm of the American right wing.
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2:15 PM · May 19, 2021
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8bg5/amy-coney-barrett-paid-anti-abortion-group-attacking-roe-v-wade-supreme-court
Amy Coney Barrett received money for speaking several times in front of a program run by a deeply conservative Christian organization that helped create the law at the center of a Supreme Court case thats threatening to eradicate legalized abortion across the U.S.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) describes itself as a bastion of advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith, but its more than that. Over the last several years, its emerged as the powerhouse legal arm of the American right wing. It has deep pockets, employs dozens of lawyers worldwide, and is affiliated with thousands more. Devoted to fighting the GOPs so-called culture wars over issues like abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, its been designated an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Since 2011, Barrett has spoken to students at ADFs Blackstone Legal Fellowship Program five times, according to disclosure forms that Barrett filed to the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of her confirmation hearing last year. She last spoke to them in 2016, before she was confirmed in 2017 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
Ahead of that 2017 confirmation, Barrett submitted a financial disclosure form to the Senate that said between 2015 and 2016, shed received two payments from the ADF, each for $2,100, the Washington Post reported.
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musette_sf
(10,206 posts)but Im real sure she wont recuse herself when the MS case comes up
Goonch
(3,618 posts)"Alliance Defending Freedom is the worlds largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life. We defend your most cherished liberties in Congress, state legislatures, and courtrooms across the countryall the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary."
https://adflegal.org/about-us
Hekate
(90,865 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)if they got rid of Roe v Wade. The money isn't in getting rid of it, it's in saying you're going to, saying you want to, and speaking to others who want to.
Once it's gone, they would be like the dog that caught the car then didn't know what to do with it.
And trust me, they know this. The existence of Roe v Wade, along with guns and LGBTQ rights, are probably responsible for most of their fund raising, speaking fees and book sales.
Gregory Peccary
(490 posts)Gotta fend off those pesky liberals trying to make it legal again. Gotta go after all the coathanger rebels. etc etc
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)has been a proven money-maker for them for fifty years. Why change gears on a sure thing?
Honestly, If we let them make abortion illegal, let every one have any guns they want, and cut taxes all they want, the republican party would have little reason to exist.
No way do they want a world where their mistresses couldn't abort their babies easily, people are bringing guns to their rallies and a counry so bankrupt they couldn't load spending bills with pork.
Thanks for joining me in a conversation where I'm just letting my mind run loose in this direction for now.
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)The rich always did, even back in the old days.
You make good points, but I agree with the other poster.
Criminals always find ways to make money.
When booze became legal again, the bootleggers just went to drug sales.
They still had gambling and prostitution to bring in money.
Right now the GOP is bringing in a lot of money with trash talking lunatics.
Maybe they don't need the abortion issue any more.
The GOP crime syndicate is moving into the 21st century where conspiracy theories are the money makers.
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)Now it's no problem. But you're right, I'm just thinking out loud here. Thanks for the response.
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)Usually the girlfriend was paid off, so she kept quiet.
A nurse would pee into a cup to get a non- pregnant urine test result.
Then the doc did the procedure as a D and C which is legal and routine.
Nothing to blackmail on a normal procedure.
Nothing for the press to report.
If you are male, or young, you probably don't understand how the system worked back in the day.
Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)I was in high school berore Roe v Wade. I knew a few girls that got abortions "legally" by going to Planned Parenthood, visiting a Psychiatrist a few times and being declared mentally unfit to carry the pregnancy to term. Basically a medical reason for an abortion due to the mental health of the mother. I have no idea how common this was. These were not rich kids or famous parents.
But there were also girls who went to their parents, snitched on the (older) guy and he got charged with statutory rape.
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,334 posts)Or went to a foreign country for the procedure. I'm a well-read fan of Marilyn Monroe and I've read from more than one source that she went to Mexico and had an abortion during the filming of "Some Like it Hot" in San Diego.
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)Women flew to New York where abortion was legal.
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)NotANeocon
(423 posts)She is intelligent enough to know that the inevitable result of the banning of abortion and denying women the right to control their own lives will be a return to the mass slaughter of post pubescent to menopausal women.
Of course she would not be the only gravid woman killer on the court.