See update for January 23, 2023, at end of post.
Ruth Marcus still wants an answer to Sonia Sotomayor’s question:[]
“How is your interest anything but a religious view?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked the lawyer for the state of Mississippi during oral arguments in the case [Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization] that would later eliminate the constitutional right to abortion. “So when you say this is the only right that takes away from the state the ability to protect a life, that’s a religious view, isn’t it?”[]
I don’t find Marcus’ op-ed especially well argued. She relies,[] rather, on cases making their way through the courts arguing that the state abortion bans that Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization enabled infringe on other (than conservative Christian) groups’ religious rights,[] as if the mere existence of these cases, which have yet to be decided, is sufficient. Read more →