The red robed handmaidens who paraded themselves at the Supreme Court Washington, DC, in protest of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearings are back for Amy Coney Barrett.
The red-robed handmaidens who paraded themselves at the Supreme Court Washington, DC, in protest of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court hearings are back for Amy Coney Barrett. Inspired directly by the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, the white-bonneted handmaiden's made their presence known in protest of Barrett's conservative positions.
The concern among the left, as made clear on Monday during Barrett's confirmation hearings, is that Barrett would overturn the Roe v. Wade caselaw that is what protects women's right to abortion in the United States.
Senators on the floor also called into question Barrett's willingness to uphold the Affordable Care Act, legislation that created a healthcare exchange where Americans without health insurance could buy into a plan.
Handmaid’s Tale women descend on the Supreme Court to protest the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. pic.twitter.com/yfFsWiehI6
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington)
The original legislation continued within it a requirement for Americans to have health insurance, whether through a private plan or through one on the exchange, and provided large financial penalties for those who did not buy qualifying insurance. President Trump has removed that mandate, and the associated penalties for non-compliance.
There is no concern, from the handmaidens, as to whether or not Coney Barrett reviews caselaw, forms her own opinions, and makes her own decisions. All that matters to them is that she does not toe the feminist line—which is not about equal rights for women, but about following specific dogma, such as being cool with abortion, and doing what the Democrat party declares is the right thing to do.
Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Mazie Hirono, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, among others, claimed to know Coney Barrett's intentions with regard to the ACA, and Roe v. Wade, because they assumed that her allegiance to dogma is akin to their own.
They cannot fathom that there could be a woman who is capable of forming her own perspective, outside of a set of predetermined guidelines, because it's simply not something they are capable of themselves.
The idea among Democrat senators is that Coney Barrett will be taking over Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's seat in the Supreme Court, and that as such, she should have the same views as Ginsberg. But like Ginsberg, Coney Barrett knows her own mind, and will not be cowed by ideologues.
"The American people should decide," Booker said, and went on to say "I will not be supporting [this] nomination." He entered into the record a letter from himself, Sen. Kamala Harris, and Sen. Leahy, that stated the hearings should not have proceeded without everyone in the room being tested for COVID-19.
If he and his colleagues could have counted on Coney Barrett to behave like a good little woman and do what she's told, the handmaids instead would be cheating her nomination, not opposing it.
A professional, successful attorney, judge, a dedicated mother and wife, Coney Barrett should be everything that feminists applaud. She is a triumph of our modern era where women don't have to choose between family and career, but can do both, with support from spouse and community. But for Democrats and the leftist media she is suspect, because she doesn't hold the views they think her sex demands she should.
Slate went so far as to call her a "shameless careerist." This is not an insult they would throw at any woman on left, and that's clear to anyone who has been paying attention.
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But the left can simply not abide a woman who does not bow to their dogma, and that's why this incredibly qualified woman has the handmaids' panties in a twist—she's qualified, she's considerate, she's accomplished, and she holds conservative values, and for the Democrats, that's the real crime.
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