Justice Ginsburg Unplugged

“I still think, although I was much too optimistic in the early days, that the possibility of stopping a pregnancy very early is significant. The morning-after pill will become more accessible and easier to take. So I think the side that wants to take the choice away from women and give it to the state, they’re fighting a losing battle. Time is on the side of change.”

-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a recent interview with the New York Times

Me: The so-called morning-after pill can likely act as an abortifacient and threatens the life of a conceptus. So, contrary to her thought, it can end a life and end a pregnancy after it begins. Justice Ginsburg is right, however, that the next wave of abortions won’t be done in a clinic but in the privacy of people’s home through prescription and over-the-counter drugs. May God help us.

When I saw the headline, I thought you were going to discuss this beautiful nugget:

“at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” [emphasis added]

A wise Latina woman wouldn’t have said that.