Clarence Thomas makes it clear: The right is coming for birth control next

[lordsummerisle]

Amanda Marcotte
salon.com

They always deny it when directly confronted, but make no mistake: Conservatives are coming for your birth control. That much was confirmed yet again on Tuesday when Justice Clarence Thomas issued an unhinged opinion on what was supposed to be an abortion case in which, not to put to fine a point on it, he suggested that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, advocated for birth control because she was hoping to kill black people.

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/29/clarence-thomas-makes-it-clear-the-right-is-coming-for-birth-control-next/

[Skittles]

1. Clarence forever plays the victim

[11 Bravo]

2. Always has, always will.

CT is an oxygen thief, and a waste of skin.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Did he provide statistics to show that more black women are opting for abortions than white

women? Because, it seems I read somewhere that the majority of those opting for this procedure are white.

[brewens]

4. I've brought up a point of those personhood bills that would outlaw some forms of birth control.

They call the way it works an abortion because it prevents a fertilized egg from developing.

Okay, so even if the law is passed now, it's still retroactive in a sense. A great many right-wingers that might go along with those laws have benefitted immensely from those forms of birth control for many years. So they presumably, if they were doing it right, had who knows how many abortions over all the years.

[Buckeyeblue]

5. Thomas is 70 years old

It's possible that in the next 8 -10 years he'll be replaced. I don't think Roberts is willing to touch reproductive rights. But if we don't get a Dem president and Senate, reproductive rights might be severely limited.

[pstokely]

9. probably sooner than that

likely at the end of the current term, especially if he thinks tRump is toast and he won't be able to steal it for him, if he stays on he probably thinks he can steal if for him, RBG should step down after 2021 if Dems take presidency and 51 senate seats in 2020

[Buckeyeblue]

11. I don't think he would step down. His ego is too big.

[UniteFightBack]

6. If they think that's a winning issue then I hope they dare try. nt

[spanone]

7. These fuckers are insane.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. Have you seen/heard his wife ?????

[Ilsa]

10. He thinks a pregnant woman is a mother,

even if she has no other children.

Notorious RBG delivered the smack-down.