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The Women Take OverIn oral arguments for the Texas abortion case, the three female justices upend the Supreme Courts balance of power.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_court_dispatches/2016/03/in_oral_arguments_for_the_texas_abortion_case_the_three_female_justices.2.html
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg might have had the most biting remarks of the hearing:
Seconds after Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller began to speak Wednesday morning, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg zeroed in on the undue burden questionquickly and mercilessly knocking Keller off balance and setting the tone for the rest of his nearly 40 minutes at the lectern. Ginsburg asked Keller how many women would live 100 miles or more from a clinic if the Texas law went into effect. About 25 percent, he respondedbut that didnt include the clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, just over the border from El Paso. The existence of this clinic featured heavily in the 5th Circuits decision to uphold the Texas statute; it asserted that the law did not impose on undue burden on abortion-seeking El Paso women, because they could simply cross state lines for the procedure.
Thats odd that you point to the New Mexico facility, Ginsburg said, in a clear and firm voice. New Mexico, after all, doesnt force abortion clinics to meet the same standards that Texas wouldstandards which, Texas claims, are absolutely critical to protect women.
So if your argument is right, Ginsburg continued, then New Mexico is not an available way out for Texas, because Texas says: To protect our women, we need these things. But send them off to New Mexico, to clinics with more lenient standards, and thats perfectly all right.
Well, Ginsburg concluded, with just a hint of pique in her voice, If thats all right for the women in the El Paso area, why isnt it right for the rest of the women in Texas?
Thats odd that you point to the New Mexico facility, Ginsburg said, in a clear and firm voice. New Mexico, after all, doesnt force abortion clinics to meet the same standards that Texas wouldstandards which, Texas claims, are absolutely critical to protect women.
So if your argument is right, Ginsburg continued, then New Mexico is not an available way out for Texas, because Texas says: To protect our women, we need these things. But send them off to New Mexico, to clinics with more lenient standards, and thats perfectly all right.
Well, Ginsburg concluded, with just a hint of pique in her voice, If thats all right for the women in the El Paso area, why isnt it right for the rest of the women in Texas?
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/gotta-love-notorious-rbg-by-bloggersrus.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/02/ruth_bader_ginsburg_asks_the_most_important_question_of_oral_arguments_in.html
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You gotta love Notorious RBG. (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2016
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(14,914 posts)1. I love Justice Ginsburg and wish her good health and many more years on the court.
I am grateful to the first President Clinton for appointing her.