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A review by inkerly
Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen
informative
medium-paced
3.5
A very respectable and honorable dedication to RBG and her impact on the U.S Supreme Court Justice system. I just found the audiobook in general hard to follow partially due to the narrative/interview switching and partially due to the complexity of the topics. RBG does a great job articulating her positions but I still had to pause and look up things for clarity.
The book also touched on how she would or has approached SC decisions. TBH some of her answers disappointed me. Regarding the overturning of Roe v Wade, she basically said that it was valid for the decision to be that way and said that ultimately there will always be safe abortion access because there will always be states and civilians that will not go “back” to the barbaric days of deleting a fetus. Which completely misses the point of why the ruling was so divisive in the first place. It’s not enough that “there will always be states who protect those rights” . It’s the fact that abortion is not regarded as a form of healthcare and a universal right for women to decide for themselves on. Plus this ruling will only make it so those who live in states that ban it will result to those dire measures.
So that I didn’t agree with .
Other times I did agree with her stances and understood her positions. But Roe v Wade was important to me.
I think this book did what it set out to do but I still have more questions.
The book also touched on how she would or has approached SC decisions. TBH some of her answers disappointed me. Regarding the overturning of Roe v Wade, she basically said that it was valid for the decision to be that way and said that ultimately there will always be safe abortion access because there will always be states and civilians that will not go “back” to the barbaric days of deleting a fetus. Which completely misses the point of why the ruling was so divisive in the first place. It’s not enough that “there will always be states who protect those rights” . It’s the fact that abortion is not regarded as a form of healthcare and a universal right for women to decide for themselves on. Plus this ruling will only make it so those who live in states that ban it will result to those dire measures.
So that I didn’t agree with .
Other times I did agree with her stances and understood her positions. But Roe v Wade was important to me.
I think this book did what it set out to do but I still have more questions.