Stupid Alito argument.The unborn child does not exist without the woman. If the woman's life is at risk, the medical focus is on her. End of conversation.

THE SUPREME COURT MUST BE TELEVISED. This ain't 1783!

Alito is completely out of touch with most Americans.

Wow that female attorney I applaud 👏 her great job standing up against Supreme Court Justice

He's arguing that women shouldn't have emergency treatment due to the phrase "unborn child". Disgusting.

Trying to rule over women will be the GOP's downfall. 😂😂

WHY DO THEY HAVE THESE MEN WHO ARE NOT MEDICAL DOCTORS JUDGING WHEN A WOMAN OR HER DOCTOR SHOULD TERMINATE A PREGNANCY. ALSO FOLLOWING LAWS WHICH IS OUT DATED.

“Nobody is arguing the woman isn’t an individual and she doesn’t deserve stabilization.” Alito doesn’t understand the basic consequences of these laws. Are we supposed to respect these “justices” and their ineptitude? These are the lifetime rulers of our country??

Women's health and rights are not a priority in this country. After all the years of my life, to see this happening now is just sickening to me.

I am convinced that no woman has ever said, " I hope I get pregnant, so I can have an abortion." ENOUGH SAID!

Good for that female lawyer for standing her ground and not letting alito speak over her or speak down to her.

What a force to reckon with arguing sharply with Justice Alito. Go girl.

Alito is so disingenuous. It’s disgusting.

This is a no brainer!! Leave it up to the woman and her doctor!!!!

He’s testifying, not questioning. We already know his opinion.

Speaking from personal experience, an ectopic pregnancy is a perfect example of where a woman should be permitted and able to get an abortion prior to the point where the fetus grows so large in her fallopian tube that it explodes and she is in danger of bleeding to death very quickly. Doctors can see within an ultrasound or other tests that the fetus is growing in the tube and not implanting in the uterus. But if the law says she can only have an abortion abortion if her life is threatened, then that law will require her to wait a matter of weeks perhapsand go through a great deal of pain before that tube bursts and her life is in danger in a matter of minutes to an hour from loss of blood.

So women are not just the property of a male, and ward of the state, they are also under the complete authority of an unborn child regardless of the child’s own viability. 🙄

No one seems to speak for children already in families who will LOSE their mothers to unsafe deliveries. Don’t motherless kids get a voice?

It is absolutely insane what women/families are having to go through all because Republicans and the Supreme court felt that the government should make these medical decisions rather than a women and her doctors.

Alito is infuriating. That he wants to inject himself into the room with every woman and her doctor is absolutely disgusting.

Alito is demonstrating his total ignorance of medicine. If the fetus is sufficiently developed to survive outside the womb, and the pregnancy is threatening the health/life of the woman, they induce labor and the newborn goes to the NICU for treatment. If the fetus is not sufficiently developed to survive, and the woman's health/life is threatened, then yeah, she's going to have to have an abortion to keep her alive and perhaps able to try again. This happens all the time. But Alito's so ignorant he just wants to try to find some legal hairsplitting to outlaw abortion under all circumstances.

This should never be a decision decided by a court. This decision should only be between the woman and her Dr,

So justice Alito is saying that even if The women's life is in danger, the unborn child life is 100% priority. Save the child first before the dying mother is treated. That is basically his whole argument.

Remember all the people in 2016 that said “I just can’t bring myself to vote for Hillary” … well, how’s that working out for you ?

Alito wouldn’t be arguing this if a man life was liable

She went to toe to toe with him, and I’m here for it! ❤

Alito is absolutely advocating from the BENCH!!

This monster has no business judging others. His morality is plainly inferior.

Alito is totally wrong in his interpretation of the statute. He is a monster and his premise is false!

This is the typical problem with the complete and utter antithetical argument that Alito makes. He assumes, the ability of the medical doctor to make a decision that he himself is unable to make but only argues chicken and egg law circles. Alito, alone, shows in his argument that fallacy of his stance. How can a doctor make a judgment when the supreme justice of the nation cannot decide who has priority. The alive woman citizen is in every single case the primary and uttermost holder of ALL rights to life. There can be no doubt that any decision no matter how small or faulty that saves the alive citizen's life is just. It is without any recourse or of any issue of any other action by a medical team. The medical team in a decision here is considered totally infallible and can never be questioned or otherwise legally doubted. Stop Legal Mobo Jumbo and side stepping the protection of the alive woman!

Might as well call the fetus an "unborn adult."

Medicine has come a long way in 150 years, yet they want to refer to abortion from the 1800s

Alito's proposition is absurd. If the woman dies because the doctor cannot safely decide whether the the mother's life is of greater legal "worth" than that of the foetus, then the foetus will die anyway. How does Alito suggest the foetus be kept viable after the mother dies?

A child, by definition, has been born. The term "unborn child" is an oxymoron.

That lawyer is good, she stood her ground, was not intimidated, and was very well spoken.

Since when did these Judges have enough medical training to make an EDUCATED decision about a patients health? How about leaving healthcare to the patient and the doctor.

Term limits for the Supremes!

Justice Alito I do not tell you how to practice law and I do not want you telling me how to practice medicine I have 30 years experience and I don't need a lawyer telling me what's best for a patient

So Alito can't wrap his head around the concept that if the mother dies then the unborn child dies as well. Perhaps he needs a little lesson in how time works.

Alito likes to speak over other people - like another arrogant narcissist with idiotic views on almost any topic you can think of - Donald Trump.

The hospital has a duty to the unborn child, but not to the woman. This justice is so stupid.

So in essence Alito is saying, it's "illegal" to terminate a non-viable pregnancy that threatens the mother's life but it's A-OK for the mother to die in a vain attempt to protect a pregnancy that's not viable. The woman's life, the woman's health is unimportant. It's a total embarrassment that Alito is actually a Supreme Court justice making such a moronic argument. It's no wonder why the US Supreme Court has lost so much creditably and respect. A ridiculous precedent, is still ridiculous whether it's 1824 or 2024.

Here is something that Alitio doesn’t seem to get. Without a healthy stable LIVE pregnant Woman, there is NO unborn Child!!

Wow! The solicitor wiped the floor; She even scoffed at his outrageous utterances. Weird and shameful for a supreme court justice.

She could talk ALL DAY and there's no way that alito is going to listen to her. Republican justices are f'n crazy. EXPAND THE COURT!!!

I believe the choices need to be given to the women and their loved ones. If the mother dies with 4 living children who chooses? A doctor takes care of the family health not the laws.

The POTENTIAL viability of a fetus should NEVER come before the ACTUAL viability of the woman!!!

The solicitor general did a good job standing up to Alito and standing her ground.

Abortion ban is not about babies, it’s about controlling women.

This is crazy. He has not been to medical school. So he is making a judgment from a phrase instead of somebody health , between life and death 😮wow

Considering that Alito cited an 18th or 17th "witch" killer when overturning Roe v Wade, and considering witches were said to prove their innocence by actually dying, the Idaho law is fitting. If the woman truly needs an abortion to save her life, she can prove it by dying. (Oh and check out the propublica article on idaho: they even refused a federal grant to study why matetnal mortality)

Alito’s misogyny is not rare, safe and ethical for women.

ALITO SHOULD RETIRE!!! ALITO SHOULD RETIRE!!! ALITO SHOULD RETIRE!!

How is it that a biased, ignorant, stubborn, non medical trained can expect medical professionals to break EMTALA laws as well as the Hippocratic Oath?

Just when you thought Thomas was the most detestable justice on the Supreme Court, here comes Alito making his case for that position.

Wow… Alito’s genuinely unable to follow the arguments presented

Alito makes my blood boil!

Since when did they start calling a fetus an unborn child?

non fatal medical emergency??? Like ORGAN FAILURE OR INFERTILITY???? jeez louise

This just shows that a corrupt judge can interpret the law however he wants . Imagine trying to argue that a woman has no right to live.

You’re listening to a man who made his mind up long ago , and isn’t going to change them.Whatever the merits of her arguments , he has already dismissed them.

Alito uses the presence of the word unborn child to justify no abortion for anyone. He elevates the unborn child above the women by reading rights to the unborn child above the mother. He really is beneath contempt to find a way to eliminate any abortion.

Not all pregnancies can or should be saved. Until a state takes over the care of an unwanted child and supports them until they're independent; then the court/state has no jurisdiction over legislating women's healthcare. Not all abortions are for birth control...a woman's health and mental status are relevant also. Alito, like most men, don't know how women's bodies or healthcare needs are relevant to their laws. Makes me feel like men dont care if women die or suffer horrific results. Even cattle can get vet care if they have a crisis in health while pregnant.

Even though a fetus has a heart beat it doesn't have brain activity and thoughts? If a person gets into a accident and the heart is still beating but there is no brain activity or thoughts the family has the right to pull the plug on that person. Thats their right no matter how hard it would be.

This is horrifying -- the government actually has to defend a woman’s right to life and choice. Shame on alito - shame on all the gop for every single life lost

You can’t force someone to remain pregnant against their will.

Basically his argument, Justice Alito's is, the unborn child is more important than the mothers. Which is absolute garbage.

Samuel Alito seems to think that he is a Supreme Being, rather than a member of the Supreme Court. He is a woeful person to have such power.

The level of misogyny in these arguments. If a woman becomes pregnant she is immediately a second class citizen to a fetus/unborn child. It's just another way for men to covertly control women as if they care about the unborn. Give people proper and affordable health care and then I'll believe your sentiments about an unborn child. This is disturbing.

Alito is a shame not only for SCOTUS but for human race

Well done Ms. Prelogar! You represented women well. You didn’t get distracted by erroneous statements made by the judge, and kept the conversation on track. The idea that doctors aren’t allowed to save the woman’s life and/or health during pregnancy is a draconian interpretation of the law and unacceptable.

Impeach Justices Alito and Thomas.

This is absolutely unbelievable. I cannot believe, in 2024, women STILL have to fight for basic medical care/rights. Religion doesn't get to decide what I do with my body and what's inside it.

Justice Thomas is totally corrupt. And that’s not hyperbole. It’s a fact.

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar is a great litigator. I love that she is fighting for our basic rights!!

Any law that calls a fetus an "unborn child" is doing so based on religious grounds and violates the establishment clause which prohibits making laws that favor a religion.

You know he leaked the decision on roe. He is despicable.

Justice Alito just wants to harm women. Period.

While most good people can agree on common-sense time restrictions on abortion, the Supreme Court appears mostly divided along the two extremes of the debate.

It is abysmally and painfully obvious that Alito thinks he has enough medical "knowledge" to adjudicate medical scenarios legally. I would love to see him argue this with a trained medical obstetrician.

An "unborn child" before viability is an extension of the woman, not separate. Arguing to save a non-viable being when its host is dying is absurd.

The Solicitor General did an outstanding job making the case.

10-year-old from Ohio who received an abortion after rape was the center of a political firestorm in Indiana soon after the Dobbs decision. And Hadley Duvall, who was raped by her stepfather and became pregnant when she was 12, appeared in a campaign ad for Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. That ad has been credited with helping Beshear win reelection.abortions after rape would also be difficult to obtain in states that have abortion bans if all clinics providing abortions have closed, which is the case in multiple states. Samantha Hansen in Utah says she's glad researchers worked to quantify the number of pregnancies from rape in states where abortion is banned. She says the 65,000 estimate may surprise some people. "I'm not surprised," Hansen says. "If anything, I'm over here going - it's probably higher." They estimate in a research letter published Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine that 64,565 pregnancies have been caused by rape in the 14 states where abortion is banned.To arrive at the figure of nearly 65,000 rape-caused pregnancies, researchers first estimated the number of rapes that occurred in the states with abortion bans, while those bans were in effect - time periods that vary state-to-state. "We used the best available research and data that we're aware of to come up with the fraction of women of reproductive age who are survivors of - and the terminology here is horrible - completed vaginal rape," Dickman explains. "The foundation was a survey that the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] conducted that we think is probably the most accurate estimate of not just the sexual assaults that were reported to law enforcement, but also those that weren't reported to They then used Bureau of Justice Statistics data on criminal victimization and FBI Uniform Crime Reports to assess the number of vaginal rapes of women, ages 15-45, that happened in those 14 states while abortion bans were in effect. The number they arrived at is approximately 520,000 rapes. Finally, they calculated that 12.5% of those assaults would result in a pregnancy, based on CDC data. "These are hard numbers to come up with - there's no kind of systematic collection at the level of health care providers to be able to answer this question of what's the pregnancy rate among people who have been victims of a completed vaginal rape," Dickman acknowledges. "This is kind of the best we could do." Their total estimate of pregnancies due to rape in states with abortion bans is 64,565

TERM LIMITS FOR THE SUPREME COURT!!!!!

Alito's condescension is palpable and the Federal Government's lawyer did a great job of slapping that foolishness down.

An old white MAN telling a YOUNG woman about abortion and pregnacy is more than outrageous

Apparently these few Justices think they have the power to decide if a women gets to live or die. They should be held directly accountable.

The living breathing women's life and health is more important than a fetus that may or may not become a baby. If mother and fetus were both healthy she wouldn't be there at the hospital in first place.

How can a „unborn child“ survive, when the mother is on the brink to die?? No women want‘s or choses the death of their child!!

What does an old man know about pregnancy. During my 8th month, I started spotting blood. I was hospitalized in the base hospital on Nellis AFB Las Vegas. When I went to the bathroom, my water broke, and it was 7 weeks early. The Base Hospital was not set up for premeture babies. I was transferred to a downtown hospital and placed under a neonatal specialist. My son was breech and had not decided on the birth canal. He was at risk of infection and they worried that his lungs were not developed enough for him to breathe on his own. I was at risk for infection because of my son. For five days I was pumped full of steroids to mature my sons lungs. I had a C section. We were lucky there were babies in the NICU that had not been so lucky. And mothers who had not been. Men should not have a say in situations that they can't be exposed to themselves.

All courts should be televised.

It's actually so embarrassing to hear this line of argumentation from Alito. Not only is he absolutely clueless about the medical intricacies of this problem, but he's also clearly misinterpreting the intention of the statute discussed, either deliberately or ignorantly. Either way, it's not a good look for a justice of the highest court in the land.

Alito got caught in a freak storm and travelled from medieval times.

OMG… An UNBORN CHILD IS NOT A CHILD ! BECAUSE IT IS NOT YET BORN !

There will be a lot of unnecessary deaths, suffering, and heartaches, allowing the government to decide every detail regarding medical decisions. This will consume the Supreme Court's time for many years.

When your whole argument boils down to semantics, you have no argument.

Please reform this Court

The way these men spoke about our bodies and what we go through to become mothers was so disgraceful! They don’t even know how a woman’s body works let alone what we need in emergency care! They actually think women are having abortions because of a mental health crisis, and that just does not happen! Absolutely deplorable🤬🤮🤬

I'm not pro abortion but there are many circumstances that require an abortion to protect the woman.

I live in northern idaho. The laws are so messed up now there are no OBGYN doctors in my out small town. Doctors are afraid of lawsuits because all the legislation is so unclear. It’s a sad day for women and their health+