In the propaganda war currently being waged over the Supreme Court, standards are dropping dangerously low:
The private homes of justices are being targeted by protesters. Democratic leaders cheer those protesters on. And President Joe Biden’s White House abdicates any responsibility for urging the most radical to maintain at least a veneer of civility.
But when it comes to what’s become one of the left’s most blatant lies on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, not even the biased “fact-checkers” at The Associated Press could let it go.
Twitter has been buzzing over a quote allegedly taken from Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
In the liberal telling, the quote is attributed to Barrett and suggests that one reason the outspoken justice has given for her pro-life beliefs is to maintain the “domestic supply of infants.”
The problem here — and it’s a big one for the left– is that the phrase in Alito’s opinion doesn’t come from Barrett at all.
It doesn’t even come from a Supreme Court justice.
Instead, it comes as a footnote on page 34 of Alito’s draft with an unmistakeable attribution to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report from 2008: “[N]early 1 million women were seeking to adopt children in 2002 (i.e., they were in demand for a child), whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life and available to be adopted had become virtually nonexistent.”
According to the AP’s “fact check,” some social media users are attributing the quote correctly, but many of the most virulent posts “conflated” the footnote with comments Barrett made during oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the case that’s the subject of Alito’s draft.
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