Posted on 09/19/2020 8:11:58 PM PDT by ebb tide
From the Bishop of Lexington, Kentucky:
Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.
Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.
Q: When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, what do you mean?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.
Revealing in this regard, the Court invokes an antiabortion shibboleth for which it concededly has no reliable evidence: Women who have abortions come to regret their choices, and consequently suffer from “[s]evere depression and loss of esteem.” Ante, at 29. Because of women’s fragile emotional state and because of the “bond of love the mother has for her child,” the Court worries, doctors may withhold information about the nature of the intact D&E procedure. Ante, at 28–29. The solution the Court approves, then, is not to require doctors to inform women, accurately and adequately, of the different procedures and their attendant risks. Cf. Casey, 505 U. S., at 873 (plurality opinion) (“States are free to enact laws to provide a reasonable framework for a woman to make a decision that has such profound and lasting meaning.”). Instead, the Court deprives women of the right to make an autonomous choice, even at the expense of their safety
The pro-LGBT John Stowe is a francisbishop, consecrated in 2015.
Ping
This is the bishop who denounced Sandmann as a racist for wearing a MAGA cap.
30 million babies dead.
This agnostic lowlife should be harassed anytime he tries to celebrate Mass. Ginzburg celebrated abortion, homosexuality and all the perverse permutations of homosexuality. Both Stowe and Ginzburg were evil.
The chief justice of the SC today called Ginsberg “a Towering legal mind”. That made me just about vomit. How he could call a Marxist communist that hated our constitution that is beyond me. It reminded me why I hate the Washington DC swamp with a passion. Oh, it also confirms why I can’t stand John Roberts.
The bishop is bass ackwards.
Shut up Bishop Fudgepacker. You make me ashamed to be Catholic. I’m so close to leaving this screwed up church and its because of people like you and Francis.
Pretty certainly Ginsburg was called to meet her maker, face to face, to account for her facilitating the genocide of His children. I truly believe Ginsburg is celebrating her “new year,” an actual eternity, in a place she deserves to be.
Another POS from the Catholic hierarchy. The Catholic Church is owned in fee simple by the left wing of the Democrat party. The only point where their philosophy diverges is abortion and then I suspect the pedophile hiding bishops are only giving pro forma objections
This bishop is an obvious queer. He’s one of the worst of the worst.
This was the idiot bishop that chewed the Covington kids up and down when the story came out, then refused to apologize for it.
I know Lin Wood threatened him with a lawsuit, but don’t know if he followed up on.
His is also outspoken about his GLBT support.
Yes, Bishop Stowe is fiercely anti-Trump.
He also taps about immigration, but refuses to address abortion.
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