Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who was appointed by then-President, Bill Clinton, says abortion may be protected under the 13th Amendment, which was originally meant to ban slavery throughout the United States following the Civil War.
D.C. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly argued that the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in 1865, has been argued by some to protect a woman’s ability to obtain an abortion. Judge Kollar-Kotelly decided to look into the matter, requesting lawyers to file a briefing on if the 13th Amendment could potentially be stretched into maintaining the abortion standards of Roe V. Wade.
Judge Kollar-Kotelly wrote:
“Defendant relies on the Supreme Court’s statement in Dobbs that ‘the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.’ Over the past several months since its pronouncement, this statement is often read as the Court’s holding, i.e., that the Supreme Court held that no provision of the Constitution extends any right to reproductive health services,” adding, “For its part, and without the benefit of a fuller briefing, the Court is uncertain that this is the case.”
This argument is based on the idea that the 13th Amendment guarantees individuals the right to control their own bodies and to make decisions about their own lives, free from government interference or coercion. However, it’s of course a far stretch between arguing abortion policies and the enslavement of Black people throughout the United States, and these two issues have nearly nothing in common.
While those who argue that the 13th Amendment protects abortion rights argue that forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy to term against her will is a form of forced labor, as it compels her to use her body to perform a specific task without her consent, others view the problem of “consent” in the ability to consent to sexual activity, therefor being a rational adult and understand the possibility in pregnancy in engaging with sexual activity.
While Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is looking into this matter, she is also currently hearing a case against 10 pro-life activists charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which is a federal crime if someone uses force or threatening language to obstruct someone’s ability to enter an abortion facility.
In the non-universally accepted view of associating the 13th Amendment with potentially protecting women’s ability to seek an abortion, denying a woman the right to obtain an abortion would be equivalent to enslaving her, as she is being forced to carry out a task against her will, which is, of course, viewed by many as not only completely ridiculous, but also offensive to those who were actually enslaved in our countries past.
Just another example of how the far Left attempt to turn the Constitution into a wet noodle – excuse me; a ‘living document’. This is not operating under the rule of law. This is operating under arbitrary law. Another word for which is tyranny.
There is NO right to homicide (murder).
Another satanic savage brute beast getting exterminated in everlasting flames.
Liberal judges will make up anything, no matter how absurd, to further their leftist agenda.
It took 100 years for the public to get slavery right, we are half way there to have abortion FULLY recognized as the scourge that it is.
God help this sick woman
Pretty! This has been a really wonderful post. Many thanks for providing these details.
Judges are not on the bench, to provide their personal interpretations of the Constitutions. They are to follow it, to the letter. Why has she not been removed from the bench? Are the people in her jurisdiction, stupid?
If this Judge agrees, then it should be appealed to the US Supreme Court. Wasn’t this part of Ruling in favor of Roe vs Wade in 1973, that was also struck down in 2022 suit as abortion not being guaranteed under the Constitution? Abortion is Not Health, especially for the little human in the womb!
If she wants to make that argument, she’ll have to admit that the baby is the individual comparable to the slave. His or her life is being taken without consent.
Abortion is sacrificing an innocent human being for the comfort, convenience, or pleasure of the mother. It is barbarism.
Was this woman’s face pinched with a pair of fireplace tongs?
This is a ridiculous attempt at misinterpreting the U.S. Constitution.
Equating Slavery and Involuntary Servitude with Pregnancy is as big a stretch as Roe v Wade tried to make.
It doesn’t pass the “sniff” test.
United States is in dire need of sane non Democrat/Communist judges who can read and understand our Constitution without bastardizing it
Where does slavery end and motherhood begin for this imbecile that creates her own truths? If a creature feels enslaved by diaper changes and nightly feedings, is abortion (homicide) still a Constitutional right? Sane people wonder what drives an insane person to take the life of one or more innocent victims. Yet, we live in a society wherein a mentally sick judge, Kollar-Kotelly, represents justice. As long as we have mentally ill people governing our justice system, we will have a corrupted society.
If that argument has ANY legitimacy, it would have to be only in cases in which becoming pregnant was forced, as in rape. In most cases of desired abortion, the act of becoming pregnant wasn’t forced, thus no slavery. The natural act of carrying a developing baby to term is natural, not forced.