Alabama Court Awards Fetus the Right to Sue

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Quote: Our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases...I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. -Sonia Sotomayor 5/2001 University of California School of Law at Berkeley

Safe to say that Sonia Sotomayor does not consider herself white...