Thank God, Mom Didn’t Think Like ‘Dr. Sotomayor’
You might know her better as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
She’s not really an MD, of course, but this week she played one during the oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the potential landmark case that will decide the fate of Mississippi’s abortion-restriction law and may challenge Roe v. Wade.
As the Federalist put it, Justice Sotomayor “gruesomely” compared “a child in the womb to being brain dead and questioned whether or not a physical response by the baby such as a foot recoiling indicates that he or she can feel pain.”
“There are spontaneous acts by dead-brained people,” Dr. Sotomayor said. “So I don’t think that a response by a fetus necessarily proves that there’s a sensation of pain or that there’s consciousness.”
Sotomayor proved she is no doctor and also gave away her positions on abortion and when life begins.
Her gruesome remarks reminded me of one of the stories I tell when I speak to pro-life groups and adoption groups.
I tell them about four babies I know who were not aborted but adopted.
The first was Sarah Jane Maysfield.
Born in Missouri, her parents didn’t have enough money to care for her, so they left her on their neighbor’s porch. The neighbors adopted her and changed her name to Sarah Jane Fulks.
The second was Nancy Robbins.
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