For Conservative Christian Women, Amy Coney Barrett’s Success Is Personal
The New York Times‘ Ruth Graham talks to conservative Christian women who see Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett as a role model. “Judge Barrett, for them, is a new kind of icon — one they have not seen before in American cultural and political life: a woman who is both unabashedly ambitious and deeply religious, who has excelled at the heights of a demanding profession even as she speaks openly about prioritizing her conservative Catholic faith and family,” Graham writes. “Judge Barrett has seven children, including two children adopted from Haiti and a young son with Down syndrome.” She adds, “To Judge Barrett’s fans, she is proof that women can be as ambitious maternally as they are professionally.”