Whoopi Goldberg is, like many other personalities, distressed by the recent remarks of the judge of the American Supreme Court Clarence Thomas.
While the highest judicial institution in the United States has just repealed the Roe vs. Wade ruling, which constitutionally guarantees the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) across the Atlantic since 1973, the lawyer mentioned his desire to review other Court decisions, including access to contraception and marriage for all.
And the star of
Sister Act
to wonder how far this unraveling of fundamental rights will go in the name of respect for the letter of the American Constitution.
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“What will follow?
As Clarence Thomas pointed out, they would like to get rid of contraception.
Do you understand anything about it, sir?
No, because you don't have to use it.
You better hope they don't come after you next time, Clarence, saying you shouldn't be married to your wife who happens to be white," Whoopi Goldberg said on the set of
The View
, referencing the Loving vs. Virginia case which has permitted interracial marriages in the United States since 1967.
“We weren't in the Constitution either.
We are not even people in the Constitution, ”she continued, recalling that the founding text of American democracy was written without taking into account the black population, who were then reduced to slavery.
“You better hope nobody says you're not part of the Constitution.
You go back to being a second-rate person, because that's not going to work either.
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