Ginsburg didn’t fully support the Row V. Wade decision.
Ginsburg didn’t fully support the Row V. Wade decision. As quoted previously she claimed it was too “sweeping”, “went too far, too fast” and claimed it did little for woman’s rights and was very physician centered.
With these criticism several “women’s groups” questioned President Bill Clinton’s nomination of Ginsburg. Ginsburg did not agree with Partial-Birth Abortions and stated it was “self-evident” that woman who had those abortions regretted their decision and suffered from “severe depression and loss of esteem”
According to Ginsburg the Texas abortion legislation would be bad for clinics business. Which is interesting because I thought abortions should be “safe, legal and rare”.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the Supreme Court’s most ardent protector of abortion rights, outspoken enough about their importance to become an icon to young feminists and a source of outrage among her detractors.
Abortion providers say the restrictions are unnecessary, in some cases impossible to satisfy and would reduce the number of clinics in the state from more than 40 to about 10.
Some women’s groups questioned President Bill Clinton’s choice of Ginsburg for the Supreme Court because she had criticized the legal foundations of the court’s landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade . She added that its wholesale repudiation of state abortion restrictions went too far, too fast.
Ginsburg was incensed by an assertion in Kennedy’s majority opinion that said it was “self-evident” that women who had abortions through such a method could come to regret their choice and, consequently, suffer from “severe depression and loss of esteem.”
The finding in Roe, she has said, is based on “the woman in consultation with her doctor. So the view you get is the tall doctor and the little woman who needs him.”
“The side that wants to take the choice away from women and give it to the state, they’re fighting a losing battle,” Ginsburg told Emily Bazelon in a 2009 interview for the New York Times Magazine. “Time is on the side of change.”
“The side that wants to take the choice away from women and give it to the state, they’re fighting a losing battle,” Ginsburg told Emily Bazelon in a 2009 interview for the New York Times Magazine. “Time is on the side of change.”
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