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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]To call this story uncorroborated is to overstate its credibility.[/b] Rob Schenck, a pastor who has since turned against his former evangelical allies, claims he heard from a woman who heard from Justice Alito at a dinner party in 2014 about the pending opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a religious liberty case. Justice Alito denies leaking anything, and the woman denies hearing about it.

But this summer, after the Dobbs abortion decision, Mr. Schenck decided that what he claims to have learned in advance of the Hobby Lobby decision should be shared with the world. He wrote to Chief Justice John Roberts with concern about the gossip. When the Chief didn’t respond to Mr. Schenck’s satisfaction, he turned to the media, and then Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse piled on.

Mr. Whitehouse is famous for his tenacious digging into Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s high-school yearbook. He and Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson have written to the Chief demanding that the Court investigate this alleged ethical breach or they will do it.

[b]This is another case of political intimidation in the service of undermining public confidence in the Court. The accusation is second-hand hearsay from a politically motivated source.[/b] The woman and her late husband did attend a dinner party at the home of Justice Alito and his wife after donating money to the Supreme Court Historical Society. But that’s the extent of any corroboration.

[b]The real reason Democrats are upset is because they’ve lost the Court as a backstop legislature for policies they can’t get through Congress.[/b]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/targeting-justice-samuel-alito-rob-schenck-supreme-court-hobby-lobby-sheldon-whitehouse-11669154588[/quote]

Congress has nothing to do with reporductive rights.  I hold these and so do my daughters.  Period.[/quote]

At least until the GOP takes them away. 
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That is not really possible.  They are not forcing women to give birth regardlesss of their policies.   That does not happen and won't ever happen.  They just force abortions underground and destroy the quality of their health care system.

No state is forcing births on our girls.  Eventually, we will get the court to recognize this fundamental reality again.  But either way.. that is the way it is.[/quote]
Wtf. Can you cite evidence that every woman has decided to try and self abort? All the women at 20+ weeks who have just discovered that their fetus’s intestines are growing outside its body are going to be able to afford or obtain the precious few appointments in another state? Get out of here with your ridiculously rose colored glasses that no one is being forced to give birth when that’s the entire freaking point of the forced birther movement. Cause women misery, hopefully kill them. [/quote]

We all know many women that have had abortions and that is their right.  Even if some state claims otherwise, it remains their right.  I dont think this is an issue of the "states" get to decide about this. Those types of laws are in fundamental violation of basic woman's, human, rights.[/quote]

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