A look at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's separate opinion in Idaho abortion ruling

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Published 2024-06-27
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a separate opinion in the Supreme Court's ruling to allow emergency abortions in Idaho, for now. Attorney and CBS News campaign reporter Katrina Kaufman and Stephen Wermiel, professor of practice at American University Washington College of Law, shed some details on why Justice Jackson concurred with the majority opinion, but still had misgivings.

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All Comments (21)
  • @LAWandCoach
    I wonder if a person was suicidal due to her pregnancy, the slit wrists and all, could she get an abortion to save her life?
  • LEAVE OUR BODIES ALONE!!!!😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
  • One of many in the Supreme Court that's a Disgrace, to Our Constitution,We The People
  • This one who doesn’t know who a woman is? It is pathetic. This is how low America has fallen.
  • If you look at a picture of all justice's, there is only one child.
  • @Jdlaske84
    She referred to women as birthing persons…
  • @jmpmcv
    She is brilliant. Emerging as an intellectual standard for the future Court, the sooner the better.
  • No man will or shall have the right over anyone's body!! PERIOD!!
  • If the logic of Genesis is right about the self beginning at first breath, then the first experience of the self must be "hunger for air." Which is a term from the science of physiology. * If this logic from Genesis is wrong and the self begins BEFORE the first breath, then some experience other than hunger for air must occur before the first experience of hunger for air. * Maybe the first beat of the heart. However, there is self control over the breath but not over the heartbeat. I can take a few deep breaths and then hold my breath for a certain amount of time. But I can't take a few deep heartbeats and then hold my heartbeat for a certain amount of time. Self control-- control by the self-- exists for the breath but not for the heartbeat. * The physiology is most likely that "astrocytes" (a kind of "glial cell" in the brain) are connected via "connexins" which flood the system during parturition. Astrocytes are required for consciousness, because the "astrocyte syncytium" is a basic part of the brain. The emerging astrocyte syncytium enables memories. And memories involve the self. But instrumentation for all of this would be difficult if not impossible. * The logic from Genesis appears in the words: "... breath of life ..." Logically there must be a first breath. And logically there must be a last breath. For more quotations from the Bible, Google the article: "Pro-choice pastors like Raphael Warnock have the Bible, history on their side" * Given the difficult if not impossible instrumentation, the probable situation is this: Parturition -> connexins -> astrocyte syncytium -> self with memory and, the experience of hunger for air. Which to me, suggests the question: Is it possible for physiological instrumentation to detect the existence of the astrocyte syncytium during parturition? And the idea that The astrocyte syncytium seems to be a key physiological unit required for the existence of the self (however difficult the instrumentation). * For comparison to a semantic context about the self, cf. the youtube video "What makes you, you?" [Rawat]
  • @eze2190
    How can she rule on a case involving women when she can define what a woman is?
  • So not having a definitive ruling on abortion is wrong but ten years of ignoring gun bans is fine. As a constitutional gun bans are more important to address than fixing mistakes.