In an exchange that set much of the internet aflame, Justice Amy Coney Barrett posed a question to an attorney for Mississippi’s Jackson Women’s Health during last week’s oral arguments. Why, she wondered, were abortion rights necessary when “safe haven” laws exist to dispense with the “consequences of parenting and the obligations of motherhood”?
“Safe haven” is code for “forced childbirth.”
Interesting she felt okay with making this more known than before.
Seems to be asking for it - court expansion.
“Abortion is permanent,” the Texas amici write. “Pregnancy lasts months.”
This is backwards.
Yes, the ultimate safe haven. Why, you just have to deliver the goods. Some kindly Martha will do the raising as you move on to another position. Heck, you even get a name change!
For me this is the key quote:
“You’d have to create whole new agencies,” Rick Barth, professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, told TPM. “Child welfare doesn’t want to be doing this — it wants to look at households where kids are living, making sure they’re safe.”
And to add to Rick Barth’s statement how well is each state’s Child welfare agency doing their job? How much more in tax dollars will be needed to beef up their staffing? How many foster care families are available to deal with a new born that may have any kind of health issue, Down’s Syndrome, organ abnormalities, undiagnosed genetic abnormalities?
Will the states bring back state orphanages? Or rely on religious organizations to get their hands on newborns?
You could also add
Yeah like, what?
This is the problem with these people though. They are obsessed with pregnancy, and not the human being who comes out as a result and the decades of life they should be able to have.
Force a mother to have a child; immediately label the child a welfare baby. It’s the conservative way.
Forget political hacks - if you want to get something done, get you a true believer.
bingo
Wait a minute. So these “pro-life” people think a legitimate alternative to abortion is to have the baby and abandon it at some random building? How on earth is that better for the mother or child?
The knots these people tie themselves into.
And of course she conveniently ignored that even an uncomplicated birth can run well over $10k, and the sky is the limit for complications. Let alone pre and postnatal care.
Don’t see her offering to pony up the bucks to help would-be moms.
Personally I am in favor of safe haven laws, because I don’t want babies killed after birth, but that doesn’t mean they are a substitute for a woman’s right to choose.
The unencumbered right to absolute bodily autonomy is the only safe haven.
What happens to the babies? The adoption business, once profitable for the Catholic Church and other organizations, would be reborn and adoptive parents can once swagger their good deed while the biological mother is cloaked in shame.
They like to pretend that there’s a revolving door at work – on the outside there is the birth mother who shoves the baby into the mailslot and on the other side there is some loving, wonderful Xian couple waiting with open arms for the baby to just fall into when the slot is closed.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that. But that’s the warm, fuzzy fairy tale that these folks tell themselves.
She’s the worst of the bunch because she adopted a couple of kids and knows how “rosy” it all is.
Maternity Ranch?
