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Are Babies Humans? As Illinois 'Denies Human Dignity', Supreme Court Says Babies Aren't 'Medical Waste'

Are Babies Humans? As Illinois 'Denies Human Dignity', Supreme Court Says Babies Aren't 'Medical Waste' Read Transcript


- [Charlene] The High Courtupheld parts of an Indiana law

that requires aborted fetusesto be buried or cremated.

At the same time, thejustices did not rule

on a lower court rulingoverturning the state's ban

on abortions for race,gender, or disability reasons.

In his separate opinionJustice Clarence Thomas wrote

that the particularIndiana provision promotes

"a state's compelling interestin preventing abortion

"from becoming a toolof modern-day eugenics."

During an interview onCBN's Newswatch program,

Peter Breen of the ThomasMore Society praised

Justice Thomas for calling out the racist

and eugenic nature of abortion.

- He is trying to lay afoundation so that the court

when it takes up, saythe sex-selection ban

from some other state, itwill have a good foundation

to strike down the other side's arguments

to be able to say hey wecan prohibit these sort

of sex-selection abortions,race selection abortions.

- [Charlene] JusticeJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

took a jab at Thomas inher dissenting opinion

specifically his references

to all pregnant women as mothers.

Ginsburg said "a woman who exercises

"her constitutionally protected right

"to terminate a pregnancyis not a mother."

This comes as a flurry ofabortion laws are being passed

in states across the country.

Alabama passed a law thatvirtually bans all abortions.

Other states have passedheartbeat laws banning abortions

after a baby's heartbeat is detected.

All these laws aimed at going

to the Supreme Court to challenge Roe.

The High Court is expectedto hear at least one case

in its next term which starts in October.

- I'm still very hopefulthat the court is going

to overturn Roe v. Wade very soon.

We think we've got a fivejustice pro-life majority.

They are taking their time.

They're being careful and that,

for the sake of the country,

I understand why they're doing it.

- [Charlene] Meanwhile, abortionsupporters are preparing

for the possible overturn of Roe

by passing laws that protectabortion in any circumstance.

Tuesday, House Democrats in Illinois voted

to make abortion a primaryright in the state.

Among other provisions,the bill requires private

health insurance companies

that cover pregnancy-related benefits

to also cover abortionsincluding late-term abortions.

Churches and religiousnonprofits would not be excluded

under the measure which nowheads to the state's senate.

Charlene Aaron.

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