Things Get Heated Between Justices Ginsburg and Thomas During Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion

Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas clearly have very different opinions when it comes to abortion.

During a ruling on Tuesday about an Indiana law on disposal of fetal remains, they not only let these differences be known, they seemingly took digs at each other.

According to Fox News:

The court’s ruling allowed Indiana to enforce a requirement that abortion clinics either bury or cremate fetal remains following an abortion. The justices said in an unsigned opinion that the case does not involve limits on abortion rights. Ginsburg was one of two liberal-leaning justices who dissented.

Ginsburg said in a short solo opinion that she believes the issue does impact a woman’s right to have an abortion “without undue interference from the state.”

Thomas called her dissent out for making “little sense” and lacking “evidentiary support.”

“Justice Ginsburg does not even attempt to argue that the decision below was correct,” Thomas said in his opinion. “Instead, she adopts Chief Judge Wood’s [who wrote the federal appeals court ruling from the 7th Circuit] alternative suggestion that regulating the disposition of an aborted child’s body might impose an “undue burden” on the mother’s right to abort that (already aborted) child.”

He’s right. The child had already been killed- how is properly disposing of his little body an “undue burden” on getting an abortion? The abortion already happened.

It’s kind of creepy the lengths Libs will go to to ensure abortion is as easy-peasy as possible, huh?

Ginsburg did not take kindly to Thomas’ retort or use of the word “mother.”

“Justice Thomas’ footnote displays more heat than light,” she wrote. “A woman who exercises her constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy is not a “mother.”

You’re right, Ruth. she’s a “murderer.”

One other noteworthy aspect of the court’s action Tuesday was the silence of liberal Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, who vote regularly to uphold abortion rights. By not joining their liberal colleagues in dissent, Breyer and Kagan helped Roberts in his desire to avoid, where possible, controversial outcomes that split the five conservatives and four liberals. The two may have sought to preserve their ability to negotiate with, if not influence, Roberts in other cases.

Hmm. Interesting.

Anyway… our country is clearly more divided than ever…. even at its highest court.