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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?

What a ghoul.


101 posted on 12/01/2021 8:11:10 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Sotomayor’s view is the RELIGIOUS view. The religion is Satanism.

I would ask her if the detection of brainwaves in unborn babies would be a reasonable standard to outlaw abortions of such babies.

There is plenty of scientific evidence not only of brainwaves but coordinated brain activity in unborn babies at 24 weeks. This does not mean that babies younger than that are “brain dead” but Sotomayor is just throwing this out there anyway. She couldn’t care any less if she knew for a fact to an absolute certainty that babies feel pain even more than more developed humans.

In reality, abortion-pushers just want what they want. Justification is just what they do AFTER they’ve already decided to do what they want no matter what.


102 posted on 12/01/2021 9:06:44 PM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Brain dead.


103 posted on 12/01/2021 9:08:40 PM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Such a wise latina, isn’t she?


104 posted on 12/01/2021 9:32:30 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If a heart beats and you extinguish it... Then you have caused a death.


105 posted on 12/01/2021 9:42:29 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Isn’t she already brain dead?🤔


106 posted on 12/01/2021 10:49:47 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Google: Speaking to fetus returns:

When should I start talking to my unborn baby?
At around 14 weeks, your baby can start to hear your voice.

Usesome of these pregnancy tips for talking to your baby:
Sing lullabies or your favorite song.
Read the newspaper or kids book out loud.
Talk to the baby when you’re alone and bored.
Talk to the baby while you’re walking around the store picking out groceries.

These progs are cold hearted.


107 posted on 12/01/2021 11:11:54 PM PST by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That is an ugly thing to say, but not surpised by constant woman bashing on FR. The bashing is generalized to all women…pretty disgusting. Just as disgusting as saying all men are pigs or all white men are racists.
I love my husband and have great admiration for many men who have had a profound influence in my life, same for women…it’s all about good people.


108 posted on 12/01/2021 11:20:00 PM PST by antceecee
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To: EvilCapitalist

Does this mean Brandon is not really alive? Could he be aborted?


109 posted on 12/01/2021 11:57:16 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

What a deeply unimpressive, shallow liberal Sotomayor showed herself to be yesterday. Calling the biological fact that human life begins at conception “a religious view”. Denying fetal pain. And this. As the old saying goes, “Better to keep quiet and let people think you’re stupid then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”


110 posted on 12/02/2021 1:07:24 AM PST by MDLION (J"Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor

Oddly, no ‘personal life’ section like they do for everyone else. They do mention she has a spouse but nothing about children. ‘magine that.


111 posted on 12/02/2021 1:47:29 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I could NOT believe this crackpot, a Supreme Court Justice, would take the time it took to describe that a living fetus is NOT a human being.

I knew she was a idiot, but she spoke and removed all doubt.


112 posted on 12/02/2021 1:52:36 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Never forget, folks, all democrat party voters believe and support the murder of babies. There is no such thing as a pro-life democrat voter.


113 posted on 12/02/2021 2:26:29 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: fuzzylogic
This was early 1970s...long before cameras in every pocket. Also,I'll bet that taking a photo of it would have violated a dozen hospital policies. But it's a lot like elephants.seeing a photo of one is impressive.Seeing them in the wild,as I have (in Africa) is another thing entirely. I can still see that little baby's tiny fingernails.
114 posted on 12/02/2021 2:29:57 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: vespa300

Self-dubbed “wise Latina”? Hah!


115 posted on 12/02/2021 3:06:01 AM PST by Tallguy
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Presence of consciousness has never been the subject for the debate on legal trigger. Red herring argument to deflect and distract the direction of the debate.

Unique DNA structures demonstrate the presence of a one-time, unique life entity. The second viability trigger is the presence of that DNA structure as a STAND-ALONE kinetic entity.

A STATIC DNA structure, such as one on a microscope slide, does not demonstrate the presence of life. Only a stand-alone kinetic (growing, changing) DNA structure indicates the presence of life force.


116 posted on 12/02/2021 3:50:24 AM PST by USCG SimTech ( )
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To: vespa300

Im sure she has young family members, how does she feel about them. Despicable humans!


117 posted on 12/02/2021 4:02:10 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: antceecee

*that is an ugly thing to say, but not surpised by constant woman bashing on FR. The bashing is generalized to all women…pretty disgusting.
I love my husband and have great admiration for many men who have had a profound influence in my life, same for women…it’s all about good people.*

I admire your choice in men. Good people are fewer these days. It’s fair to respond in kind. Radiation kills cancer and it’s bad too. Women enjoy being lied to. A child would be better off with a big Mexican family(poor) than they would being aborted.


118 posted on 12/02/2021 6:10:12 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Brain wave activity of a fetus can be detected within a few weeks. And the difference between a fetal mass of matter and a brainwave dead human is that preborn humans grow into fully mature humans who can do stuff like cure cancer.


119 posted on 12/02/2021 7:57:25 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Sotomayor also said that she believes the idea that a fetus is a human life is a “religious view.”
***The idea that a fetus is NOT a human life is a “religious view.”


120 posted on 12/02/2021 8:00:22 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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