Sonia Sotomayor Claims Fetal Pain is Not Proof Unborn Children are Human Beings
Micaiah Bilger
12/01/2021 54
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dismissed arguments that unborn babies should be protected from abortion when they are capable of feeling pain Wednesday as Mississippi asked to be allowed to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The high court heard a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade on Wednesday in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Mississippi is challenging the precedent that forces states to legalize the killing of unborn babies for any reason up to viability.
During oral arguments Wednesday, Mississippi attorney Scott Stewart told the court that science has advanced so much in the five decades since Roe that society now has a better understanding about the humanity and development of the unborn child.
However, Sotomayor, a Democrat appointee, attacked this reasoning in her line of questioning, asking Stewart to name specific medical and scientific advances that the court should consider.
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