Sotomayor compares fetus to brain dead person, says fetal movement doesn’t prove consciousness

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Supreme Courtroom Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the concept that a fetus that has the capability to transfer and respond to discomfort is a human daily life that need to be secured from abortion.

“Pretty much just about every state defines a mind death as dying,” Sotomayor, appointed by former President Barack Obama, explained in the course of oral arguments in a opportunity landmark abortion rights scenario Wednesday, as the point out of Mississippi defended an abortion restriction legislation that directly challenges Roe v. Wade.

Supreme Court Law enforcement officers erect a barrier concerning anti-abortion and pro-abortion legal rights protesters exterior the courtroom developing, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights scenario Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Wellness, in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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“Nonetheless, the literature is stuffed with episodes of persons who are entirely and completely mind useless responding to stimuli,” Sotomayor continued. “There’s about 40 percent of useless people who, if you contact their ft, the foot will recoil. There are spontaneous functions by lifeless mind people. So I you should not believe that a reaction to — by a fetus necessarily proves that you can find a feeling of pain or that you can find consciousness.”

Sotomayor also reported that she believes the concept that a fetus is a human daily life is a “religious perspective.”

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 01: Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court of the United States on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Justices will weigh whether to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks and overrule the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 01: Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters show in entrance of the Supreme Court docket of the United States Supreme Courtroom of the United States on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Justices will weigh whether or not to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion right after 15 months and overrule the 1973 Roe v. Wade conclusion. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Occasions through Getty Illustrations or photos
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Sotomayor was criticized for her remarks by conservatives on social media together with Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich.

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“Justice Sotomayor is evaluating babies in the womb to dead folks,” Pavlich tweeted.

“Sotomayor is revealing just how bad the pro-Roe arguments are,” Breitbart Information Senior Editor Joel Pollak tweeted. “Inadvertently, of system.”

“Oh superior grief, Sotomayor enjoying the ‘brain death’ card now,” Ethics and Community Coverage Centre Director Ryan T. Anderson tweeted. There is no dispute about no matter if or not an unborn the baby is in simple fact a toddler, a residing human remaining. It really is not a debate about when the baby is viable outside the house a womb, it is really a problem about no matter whether the baby’s everyday living matters.”

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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2019 file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaks at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Miss.  U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in New Jersey says the lawyer who killed her son and seriously wounded her husband also had been tracking Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. .  (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

FILE – In this Aug. 17, 2019 file photo, U.S. Supreme Court docket Affiliate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, speaks at the Mississippi E book Pageant in Jackson, Miss.  U.S. District Choose Esther Salas in New Jersey suggests the attorney who killed her son and very seriously wounded her husband also had been tracking Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. .  (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

The circumstance, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, facilities on the law, which bans most abortions following 15 months of being pregnant, significantly faster than the recent authorized regular, which prohibits abortion bans prior to fetal viability — roughly 23 to 24 weeks into being pregnant.

All through the arguments, the justices alternated concerning examining not just the authorized specifications for abortion legal guidelines based on passions of women and shielding probable life, but also the court’s personal desire in shielding itself from dropping the religion of the public.

Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report