Sotomayor Says Overturning Roe v. Wade Would Destroy Public Perception of Supreme Court

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that if efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade are successful, past the ruling would efficaciously destruct nationalist cognition of the Supreme Court.

Will this instauration past the stench that this creates successful the nationalist cognition that the Constitution and its speechmaking are conscionable governmental acts?” Sotomayor arsenic oral arguments statesman successful Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which challenges Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. “I don’t spot however it is possible.”

Sotomayor besides questioned Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart implicit his state’s involvement successful further restricting abortion.

“How is your involvement thing but a spiritual view?” she asked, adding: “The contented of erstwhile beingness begins has been hotly debated by philosophers since the opening of time. It’s inactive debated successful religions. So erstwhile you accidental this is the lone close that takes distant from the authorities the quality to support a life, that’s a spiritual view, isn’t it? When does the beingness of the women and putting her astatine risk, participate the calculus?” 

She adjacent deed backmost astatine Mississippi’s arguments that Roe v. Wade should beryllium overturned due to the fact that the close to an termination is not explicitly laid retired successful the substance of the Constitution, saying that neither Marbury v. Madison, which established judicial review, nor rulings connected commencement power and same-sex marriage, are laid retired successful the Constitution.

“I fear nary of those things are written successful the Constitution,” Sotomayor said. “They person all, similar Marbury v. Madison, been discerned from the quality of the Constitution.”