The US Senate on Monday voted to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court [1].
Barrett is a Catholic mother of seven children, including two adopted from Haiti. She is a member of the ecumenical charismatic group People of Praise.
During confirmation hearings to an Appeals Court in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) questioned Barrett on her personal faith and values, saying that “when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. And that’s of concern.”
Barrett has said repeatedly that she would interpret the law according to the original meaning of the text of the Constitution, and would not impose her own moral or political preferences.
In 2006 she added her signature to an advertisement in her local newspaper that quoted the late Justice Byron White calling the Supreme Court’s 1973 Federal imposition of abortion an “exercise of raw judicial power.” [2]
“It’s time to put an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe v. Wade and restore laws that protect the lives of unborn children,” the text stated.
In 2015, she signed a letter from Catholic Women to the Synod of Bishops [3] in Rome that said the Church’s teachings, “on the dignity of the human person and the value of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women; on openness to life and the gift of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman—provide a sure guide to the Christian life, promote women’s flourishing, and serve to protect the poor and most vulnerable among us.”