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I've seen say RBG wanted abortion left up to states and gave a speech on this. I looked it up and found, once again, the anti choice folks are cherry picking this.
Time Magazine article in 2018:
When Sen. Hank Brown (R-CO) asked about her remarks during her confirmation hearing, she clarified her stance: Abortion prohibition by the State, however, controls women and denies them full autonomy and full equality with men. That was the idea I tried to express in the lecture to which you referred.
Ginsburg said that she believed it would have been easier for the public to understand why the Constitution protected abortion rights if the matter had been framed as one of equal protection rather than privacy. And in fact, there was a specific case she had in mind as one that should have driven the national conversation, instead of letting Roe carry that weight.
Ocelot II
(115,719 posts)on account of the underlying reasoning, which she thought was weak. She thought the basis for the decision would have been more robust and defensible if it had been based on equal protection as in Loving v. Virginia instead of on the "penumbral" right to privacy. Looks like she was right.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Roe had to go
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)Ocelot II
(115,719 posts)which would have been awkward for Clarence and Ginni.