Pro-lifers point to RBG’s comments on Roe v. Wade after Supreme Court hears Mississippi case

he late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s previous comments about Roe v. Wade are receiving renewed attention after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a major abortion case earlier this week.

During her tenure on the court, which spanned more than a quarter of a century, Ginsburg consistently voted to strike down restrictions on abortion. The liberal justice was among the majority of justices who struck down a Nebraska law banning partial-birth abortion in Stenberg v. Carhart and who struck down laws in Texas and Louisiana requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at hospitals near the clinics where they work. She dissented in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart, where the Supreme Court upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.

Since Ginsburg’s death last year and her subsequent replacement by Amy Coney Barrett, progressives have grown increasingly concerned about the possibility that the central holding of the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, that women have the right to obtain an abortion, might be overturned or weakened. While Ginsburg supported upholding the right to abortion found in Roe, she did make comments taking issue with the reach of the decision and its impact throughout the course of her career as a lawyer and Supreme Court justice…. (Excerpts from the Christian Post)