Whoopi Goldberg issues chilling warning to Justice Thomas on The View as she lashes out about Roe v Wade | The Sun
WHOOPI Goldberg issued a chilling warning to Justice Clarence Thomas on The View as she lashed out about the Supreme Court's Roe V Wade ruling.
The View host ripped Justice Thomas after he urged his colleagues to reevaluate other landmark cases protecting contraceptive access, same-sex relationships and same-sex marriages.
"We were not in the Constitution either, we were not even people in the Constitution. And you better hope that they don’t come for you, Clarence, and say 'you should not be married to your wife,' who happens to be white," Whoopi snapped.
"Because they will move that. And you better hope that nobody says 'you know well you're not in the constitution, you're back to being a quarter of a person,' cause that's not going to work either."
In a concurring opinion delivered Friday, Justice Thomas wrote: "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.
"Because any substantive due process decision is 'demonstrably erroneous,' we have a duty to 'correct the error' established in those precedents," he wrote.
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Thomas referred to 1965's Griswold v. Connecticut, where the court threw out a state law banning the use of contraception.
In 2003's Lawrence v. Texas, the court established that states cannot criminalize private sex acts between consenting adults.
And in 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges, the court ruled same-sex couples have an equal right to marry.
The View's panel expressed outrage over the Supreme Court overturning the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade on Friday.
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However, unlike some of her fellow co-hosts, Sunny Hostin said on Monday's episode that she’s personally against abortion no matter what.
“I don’t believe in abortion at any time. I don’t believe in any exception to it,” Hostin said.
She added that she’s against it even in the cases of rape or incest.
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The 5-4 decision on Friday will leave the issues of abortion up to state legislators, which will ultimately result in a total ban on the procedure in about half of the states.
Associate Justice Samuel Alito was joined in his opinion by Justices Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
In Friday's ruling, Alito called Roe "egregiously wrong from the start".
He said the Constitution "does not confer a right to abortion," declaring that the decision should ultimately be left to the state to regulate.
"Abortion presents a profound moral question The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion.
"Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives."
The states that may implement total or near-total abortion restrictions include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Democrat-appointed Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented.
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“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,” they wrote.
At the same time, the court voted 6-3 to uphold a Mississippi law that bans all abortion past 15 weeks, with very few medical exceptions.
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