Judge Amy Coney Barrett is the exact opposite of everything Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood for. She is a stringent anti-abortion advocate and a hardcore religious right conservative. She is honestly everything a supreme court justice should not be - a hardcore textualist and originalist. This means that she neither reads beyond the words of the law, ignorant to the actual function of the law in practice, nor does she believe in the flexibility of the constitution, electing only to read the constitution exactly the way it was written 200 years ago.
Judge Barrett graduated from Notre Dame Law School. She later clerked for Justice Scalia, essentially sharing his uber-conservative views. Barrett and her family are highly Catholic. Her confirmation in 2017 roused conservatives in support of her as Democrats questioned whether she could be unbiased with her Catholicism - the right decided to label this as prejudice on part of liberals. During this hearing, she affirmed that she is "a faithful Catholic...although would stress that [her] personal church affiliation or [her] religious belief would not bear in the discharge of [her] duties as a judge." Of course, we have never seen anyone say such a thing and then use their faith as a justification to limit other people's rights, right?
Along those lines, she has clearly stated that she does not feel obligated to agree with the precedent created by Row v. Wade and would be open to revisiting the ruling. She has also publicly supported an Indiana law that banned abortions sought solely on the sex or disability of the fetus. So, if she is confirmed, we can essentially say goodbye to our abortion rights.
I know this article was brief and mainly focused on her religious views, but that was the point. Rarely does anyone ever bring up the high religiosity of American politics. America is not a theocracy but it is becoming one. It seems that people are more scared of the atheist than they are of this woman who clearly wants to use her religious views to justify ruining the lives of so many women in America. I am in no way implying that religion is the root of all evil or all religious people think like her, but people who do are often in these positions of power. It would be a shame if we let her views defile the seat in which RBG once sat.
