Amy Coney Barrett shocked Idaho law preventing a doctor from abortion unless mother was dying now.

[Swede]

Amy Coney Barrett shocked during oral arguments that Idaho law would keep a doctor from performing an abortion unless the mother was immediately dying right at the exact moment she’s at the hospital.

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[RandySF]

1. Well, she voted to overturn Roe.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Trump and Mitch chose her.

I'm betting it wasn't on her legal authorship.

[hlthe2b]

3. I'm no fan, but I am getting the impression, ACB is, for the first time, getting an eye-opening look

at the party and philosophy that "brung her there."

She seems honestly astonished at a lot of things--including yesterday--hearing the idiocy of her conservative male colleagues.

While I can't get past the urgent need to do something about/dilute the impacts of Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Colorado's shame, Gorsuch (We are stuck with Roberts for a while), there is a minute chance that ACB MIGHT evolve even a tiny bit. (Then again my hopes are frequently dashed when I extend even a modicum of benefit-of-the-doubt toward any conservative).

[viva la]

11. Wait till she hears that OB/GYNs who deliver babies in Idaho

are leaving because if they do their jobs, they might be put in prison.

I'm think that she, unlike the conservative men on the court, cares at least a bit about the need for women to have health care.

[soldierant]

14. Some people have a blind spot.

Gorsuch, on the other hand, has one spot that isn't blind. And that is NAtive American rights, particularly tribal rights. On everything else he's a complete waste. But,, as long as we could be sure of him getting outvoted on everything else, I would let him stay for that one seeing spot.

[Hekate]

16. Amy brings her lived experience as a mother with multiple births. I wonder if she is going to mature into ...

… a swing vote on the issue of women’s health care. I really, really hope she does.

Those 5 men are theocratic *holes. She was raised to believe they are The Authority — but her lived experience tells her something else.

[ms liberty]

30. ACB might evolve. It wouldn't be the first time a justice had.

We can only hope.

[onecaliberal]

4. Yes. And when she took that vote, she knew this would happen. We ALL knew.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. She's shocked that the Leopards Eating Faces law

actually allows leopards to eat people's faces.

[Girard442]

6. From a distance being dumb as a box of rocks and not giving a shit can look very similar.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Exactly. She knows what happens and she doesn't care.

[PlutosHeart]

20. It was the bargain with the devil to get the spot.

[Traurigkeit]

21. She gave up christ a time ago... Time to hang up the falsehood.

[Irish_Dem]

24. They have the devil in their hearts, not God.

[NanaCat]

34. Are you for real?

You are neither in a position to make that judgment (my understanding is that only the deity can do that), nor in a position to know the woman well enough to say, one way or another.

I despise the woman, but I wouldn't dream of presuming to judge her religiosity or the sincerity of it, because I am honest enough to say I don't know her. I know things about her, but I do not know her enough to speak to her private views.

Neither do you. it's extremely dishonest to make such an assertion about her when you do not know her.

That's why this is your logical fallacy:

[yardwork]

29. I was leaning toward "dumb as a box of rocks."

[Irish_Dem]

32. She can read headlines and the news.

And understand women are left to die or suffer permanent injury.

100% certain she can read.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. How did she make it to the Supreme Court without having the ability of conceptualizing

how words on a page turn into action and consequences?

[drmeow]

12. She was never actually qualified

beyond a religious and political bias, that's how. She prayed her way to the top.

[3Hotdogs]

15. Jesus wants her on the court.

And that's good enough for me.

[hatrack]

8. And the Captain Renault act is getting really, really fucking old.

Like she didn't know what her vote would lead to.

Fuck her, and fuck her Husband/Lord and fuck the Heritage Foundation.

[tanyev]

9. Yes, Amy. You did that.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Coathanger Barrett is complicit in wrecking the 14th -- "equal protection of the laws".

Piss on each of the Subversive Six.

[Iris]

17. Eat it, Amy.

[Warpy]

18. Gee, maybe being an ignorant pile of shit who got through law school

but doesn't know the first thing about medicine SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING DOCTOR.

You'd think that simple concept would have sunk in a long time ago, but you'd be shocked at how many people think they're qualified, or if they're not, Dr. Google will provide.

[lindysalsagal]

19. NO excuses.

[LuckyCharms]

22. Her apparent ignorance in the matter

shows why supreme court justices should have no fucking say at all in health care matters.

[Rhiannon12866]

26. Maybe the next SCOTUS nominee should also have an MD since the majority seem to think they're qualified to make

Medical decisions for women throughout the country. He or she could educate the others.

[Vinca]

23. That's what happens when judges practice medicine without a license.

[intheflow]

25. She was born the year before Roe.

So she’s never lived in a world where women faced such disregard for their health. Probably grew up hearing that it wasn’t bad in the past, stories of botched abortions and women dying were exaggerated by people who want to kill babies. She didn’t realize Roe is about saving women’s lives because it was a given during Roe that women’s lives would be saved over nonviable fetuses. She was focused on the babies because she had the luxury and privilege under Roe to not consider the breadth and depth of how her vote would impact women’s health. I think she’s starting to figure it out and we watching her deprogramming on this in real time.

[NowsTheTime]

27. Give her a break if she is having second thoughts, and..

.... we actually see her voting with Dems on some issues...

getting back to a fair Scotus is too important

[Srkdqltr]

28. Its amazing to me that people who are tasked with making decisions about other peoples lives

Are so out of touch. No matter her point of view she should be aware.

[ismnotwasm]

31. Oh bullshit. She knew.

She’s not shocked. Not sure why she’s pretending to be

[mercuryblues]

35. I agree 100%

Any woman who has had children know that a pregnancy can go bad. She has 7 children, 2 of whom are adopted. She voted knowing this.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

33. Blissfully unaware of the damage she's done.

As people in the elite usually are. Now, MAYBE a glimmer of recognition of the world outside her mahogany-paneled domain. If her “shock” is indeed genuine, she still has a looong way to go.

And Amy? Just so you know, the process of dying these women are required to enter before they can receive care - frequently can’t be reversed like you reversed 50 years of precedent.