Among the most common charges leveled against Judge Amy Coney Barrett is that, if confirmed to the United States Supreme Court, she will “turn back the clock” on  women’s progress. Barrett, the highly successful mother of seven, is being cast as an anti-feminist,” who will use her own “access to power and influence to pull the ladder up behind (her).”

Feminists have long claimed that sharing power with anyone other than progressive activists poses a danger to women. They accused Republicans like President George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney of waging a “War on Women.” (John McCain!)  Before President Trump’s inauguration, leaders of the Women’s March drew millions of women to protests, in part by stoking fear about how Trump administration policies would harm women. They warned that the appointments of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court would literally cause women to “die.

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