This past Monday, Whoopi Goldberg made the claim that the decision of the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade was an outright violation of her personal freedom of religion.
Goldberg made these statements as part of the Monday morning broadcast of the talk show “The View,” and she made the argument that the idea that Roe had been overturned — which happened in pursuit of the Court’s choice in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — meant that she was being made to go along with another person’s religion.
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Wherein Whoopi Goldberg claims that overturning #RoeVWade is a violation of her … freedom of religion. pic.twitter.com/U4pQwH4Vy8
— Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) September 12, 2022
The entire conversation kicked of with Vice President Kamala Harris, who made the claim as part of an interview with Chuck Todd from NBC that the court system has now set itself up as an “activist court” — most notably because of the choice to overturn Roe.
A response was issued by Chief Justice John Roberts, saying: “I don’t understand the connection between the opinions people disagree with and the legitimacy of the Supreme Court … Yes, all of our opinions are open to criticism. In fact, our members do a great job of criticizing some opinions from time to time. But simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court.”
Goldberg chimed in at that point, making the argument that due to the fact that the overturning of Roe had an impact on the rights of women trying to obtain abortions, she did not think it should be a matter of “opinion” at all.
“I mean, can someone’s rights be a matter of opinion?” she stated. “I mean, I think John Roberts is being a bit disingenuous, you know? Yes, America’s made some tough decisions including letting black kids go to school with white kids, letting gay people get married. There are many, many decisions that people freaked out about.”
“This one, this last spate of stuff comes from a place of religion which is not constitutional,” stated Goldberg before going on to add that the restricting of the right to abortion was solely coming from a place of religion instead of law.
“That’s not how we — we are supposed to be doing things as far as I remember. Now maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t remember — I thought I was allowed to be who I am. That’s why you want to be an American, because you’re free to be who you want to be, and other people don’t have to like who you are. You just have to make sure you don’t get in somebody else’s business and hurt somebody or kill somebody,” she went on, concluding, “Now this has become about my religious freedom to make sure that you follow my religion. I don’t know that that’s — I don’t know that he’s — the idea that he’s pretending he doesn’t know what’s going on is surprising to me.”
