Ruth Bader Ginsburg on abortion, race and the broken Congress
WASHINGTON – The Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion isn’t in danger of being overturned anytime soon, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told msnbc in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview. But Ginsburg warned that the abortion restrictions being enacted by states around the country are having an outsize impact on low-income women.
“We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country,” Ginsburg told msnbc on Friday.
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“We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state enforced segregation,” Ginsburg said. “But we still have a way to go.”
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“The current Congress is not equipped really to do anything,” she said. “The kind of result that we got in the Ledbetter case is not easily achieved today. Someday, we will go back to having the kind of legislature that we should, where members, whatever party they belong to, want to make the thing work and cooperate with each other to see that that will happen.”
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