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Take your pick among American women in history – Dolley Madison, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Ida Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Carrie Chapman Catt, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Jackie Kennedy, Betty Ford, Grace Hopper, Vera Rubin, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg among countless others. With an impartial, astute, and, need I say it, sane press, Amy Coney Barrett would be on her way to be celebrated as a champion of women everywhere. In this era, being a conservative woman, being a Catholic or Christian, or holding a set...

Amy Coney Barrett refuses to identify as a “role model.” But one title she readily accepts is “mentor.”  On September 26, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Even before her nomination, media outlets attacked Judge Barrett as anti-woman and “anti-choice.” Several went so far as to incorrectly assume that her faith inspired The Handmaid’s Tale, a 1985 dystopian novel that imagines a country run by Christian fundamentalists where female “handmaids” are raped and forced to bear children. And yet, if they removed their politically-colored lens, the media...