BREAKING: For only the second time since our founding, the Center for Reproductive Rights is opposing the confirmation of a U.S. Supreme Court nominee.

A statement from our CEO Nancy Northup on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett:

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“For only the second time since our founding in 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights is opposing the confirmation of a U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
Less than three weeks ago, the American people lost a champion for gender equality and reproductive rights with the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On September 26, President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace her.
The Senate majority is rushing a truncated confirmation hearing process to begin on October 12, barely two weeks after Judge Barrett’s nomination.
While this is inadequate time for the Senators and public to fully appraise this nominee, her record in opposition to reproductive rights is clear and alarming.
Based on the record of her judicial opinions, academic articles, speeches, and public statements the Center for Reproductive Rights strongly opposes Judge Barrett’s confirmation to serve as an Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Trump has made reversing Roe v. Wade a litmus test for his Supreme Court nominees. Judge Barrett’s record supports that test.
❗️From 2010-2016, she was a member in the Notre Dame Chapter of University Faculty for Life.

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❗️In 2006, she was a signatory on a newspaper advertisement sponsored by St. Joseph County Right to Life. The ad called for an end to Roe v. Wade and Barrett specifically signed onto a statement that she opposes 'abortion on demand' and…
...defends “the right to life from fertilization,” an extreme legal position that has implications for contraception, abortion care and fertility treatments.

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❗️In 2012 she signed onto an advocacy letter that called contraception and sterilization “gravely immoral and unjust” and wrongly characterized emergency contraception as “an abortion-inducing” drug.

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❗️She subscribes to the judicial philosophy of originalism that rejects constitutional protections for abortion rights.

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❗️Her writings are clear that she does not view Roe as a “super precedent” and the principle of stare decisis would not be a restraint to overturning Roe.

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In the two abortion rights cases that have come before her as a federal appellate judge, Judge Barrett joined opinions that suggest upending Supreme Court law on both the substantive right to abortion and the procedural safeguards that allow the right to be vindicated in court.”
Read the full statement here: bit.ly/2I9Pczj. #WeDissent

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