Sotomayor compares fetus to brain dead person, says fetal movement doesn't prove consciousness

Fox News ^ | Dec 1, 2021 | Andrew Miller

[seowulf]

“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”

[tarpit]

I could imagine Hellen Keller saying “Hello Justice Sonia Sotomayor, we should talk/“

[metmom]

And she’s a perfect example.

[cgbg]

I am beginning to believe in reincarnation.

Joseph Mengele is alive and well on the SC!

[ealgeone]

Definitely has been deceived.

[delchiante]

Sotomayor is quite the culture of death zealot.

[Trillian]

Her and kagen need to recuse themselves.

[MattMusson]

An Evil Latina.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

And people wonder why things are the way they are. SMH.

[EvilCapitalist]

Agreed.

[atc23]

At some point it’s going to be imperative that we roast over an open fire this Matriarchy which rules over us

[McBuff]

This is what happens when we attempt to make the argument about when life and consciousness begins. . .as if it is the purview of science or any other "power of the earth" to affirm our inalienable rights. The proper question is when does the individual receive the endowment of rights? The answer? No one knows, nor can anyone assert that it takes place at conception or at birth. Because of this and because the value of life is self-evidently precious, it is the proper role of the law to assume that rights must begin at conception, because no power of the earth can assert otherwise.

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.

[mass55th]

How the hell would she know? She’s never been pregnant, and never will be.

[C210N]

...but she’s basically brain dead, it’s ok to pull the plug on her by her logic

We weren't allowed to for RBG.

[fuzzylogic]

It has to be the dumbest argument ever.

You can argue many things but this is not one of them.

[Billthedrill]

A simple brain scan would reveal that a fetus is capable of serving on the Supreme Court.

[neverevergiveup]

That’s profound.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes ago,when I was a mere kid,I got a job working for a pathologist at a large,very well known,hospital. One day my duties took me to the department's autopsy room. Being a teaching hospital the autopsy room's floors and walls were filled with vessels of various sizes containing organs of various sizes.

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.

[Chode]

but even the braindead, can’t survive without a heart!

wait, she doesn’t have one... er either

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes ago = years ago