The Education of Judge Amy Coney Barrrett


During one of the early Supreme Court cases involving abortion, the alternatives facing a pregnant woman was discussed. Judge Barrett confidently explained a pregnant woman is never without the alternative of carrying to term and giving birth. This seems like a position of absolutes. Absolutely no abortions, period. 

Recently, however, Garrett remarked that a 14-year-old girl pregnant from rape should be forced to give birth. In that case, the 14-year-old girl's circumstances were more important than the life of fetus. How could she who is so opposed to abortion make such a switch? 

I think I know. Garrett has seven children. I believe four of them are girls. These daughters allowed her to see abortion from a different perspective, i.e., the possibility of one of her daughters being raped and made pregnant. In that case, the alternative of carrying the rapist's fetus to term and risking her daughter's life to give birth make the value of the fetus's life come in far down the scale in value. 

It is believed that since the beginning of humans they have made this same calculation. Even up to my own lifetime, tribes who lived in harsh environments rationed the number of babies who lived to fit into the available food supply. When humans were nomadic, traveling about to use various food supplies, they must have calculated how many children they could carry as well as how many they could feed.

In circumstances where children were a source of labor for the family's income, there were more children. Today children are an expense so there are fewer of them. Pregnancies are an extension of a family's economics.

In today's circumstances, when children are a consumer expense, couples want to enjoy them. Watching a 14-year-old who was raped and is pregnant carry the fetus to term would be a terrible experience. The way to enjoy that daughter is to see to it she grows up healthy and happy. To let one's religious and political views against abortion crowd out that enjoyment is not an option for Judge Amy Coney Barrett. 


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