In the old days...

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When a woman was having a difficult delivery to the point where doctors had to decide whether to save EITHER the woman or the baby, they would go out to the waiting room and ask the husband/father which he preferred for them to save.

My guess is that the Handmaids' Five on SCOTUS don't see a problem with this.

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1. They could not care less about any living things

They are trained mental freaks who serve their masters very well

[Hekate]

2. Granny Weatherwax said it best: "What's he ever done ... I should hurt him so?"

Esme Weatherwax, witch and midwife, is called to help when a cow has kicked a pregnant woman, and when she arrives, discovers that the mother can be saved, or the baby, or neither, but not both. And the midwife has a suggestion:

‘I’d better go and put it to John Ivy, then,’ she said.

She’d barely moved before Granny Weatherwax’s hand locked on her arm.

‘He’s no part in this,’ she said.

‘But after all, he IS the–’

‘He’s no part in this.’

In the end, Granny decides to save the woman, because there is ‘too much damage’ to the child and trying to save him could’ve killed his mother. And then the midwife returns:

It was doubtful that anyone in Slice would defy Granny Weatherwax, but Granny saw the faintest gray shadow of disapproval in the midwife’s expression.

‘You still reckon I should’ve asked Mr. Ivy?’ she said.

‘That’s what I would have done…’ the woman mumbled.

‘You don’t like him? You think he’s a bad man?’ said Granny, adjusting her hat pins.

‘No!’

‘Then what’s he ever done to me, that I should hurt him so?’

Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Of course, Alito would have burned her at the stake.

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3. Never heard that one.

Thanks.