Robin Abcarian: That stench you smell? It's just the Supreme Court's funeral pyre for women's rights
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Dec 07, 2021
3 minutes
It was impossible to listen to the Supreme Court's oral arguments over a restrictive Mississippi abortion law without wondering how a woman who has experienced pregnancy and childbirth so many times could be so cavalier about it.
Last Wednesday, newly installed Justice Amy Coney Barrett suggested it's no big whoop to deny a woman an abortion because … adoption!
If the whole point of abortion is to save a woman from the burdens of parenting, implied the justice, then she can avoid them by just plopping down her newborn at the nearest firehouse door.
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