對RBG的紀念

對RBG的好奇是這兩年裏女兒們對她的熱愛引起的。最近她去世, 看到許多人在網上哀悼，把她做為自己的楷模，視她為英雄。所以前些日子在圖書館找書時，預訂了這本書。

Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

昨晚剛好發現可以借了。一聽就很喜歡。這本書，像有的書評說的，適合對RBG不太了解的人。

剛剛聽了前兩三章，不過想記下一些。

“Ginsburg’s central premise is that antiabortion laws, like employment discrimination against pregnant women, are based on “stereotypical assumptions” about women as caregivers. Today, pro-choice scholars, advocates, and citizens, including millions of young women, have embraced her emphasis on equality, rather than privacy, as the soundest constitutional foundation for the right to choose.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

“She viewed her advocacy not as a crusade for abstract principles but as a fight for justice for individual men and women disadvantaged by laws that discriminated on the basis of sex.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

“My idea of how choice should have developed was not a privacy notion, not a doctor’s right notion, but a woman’s right to control her own destiny, to be able to make choices without a Big Brother state telling her what she can and cannot do.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

“So, my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan’s words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.”
― Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

記得在聽“The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court" 的時候，就有些迷惑，為什麽Roe v. Wade要從保護隱私這個角度來判決。。也不太明白為什麽這個判決之後關於流產這個問題還有那麽多法律糾紛，那麽政治化。

這本書對這個問題的回顧，和RBG的闡述，對解我的惑很有幫助。。

還有她的 “take the court step by step" approch。她認為不論是立法還是依法判決，都是要跟隨社會的發展，而社會的發展是需要人們自己的爭取。

所謂self-govern，就是這個道理吧。。

即使從掃盲的角度我也很喜歡這本書。對了解RGB很有幫助，應該對了解最高法院也有幫助。