Once a Supreme Court justice is confirmed, the trend is for them to sink into the background. That’s an important part of maintaining their distance from the political world, and for the most part, the current members of the nation’s highest court avoid the spotlight.

That’s certainly been true for Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whose contentious confirmation included charges that her religion disqualified her. Since then, we’ve heard very little from her outside of the usual conference appearances justices make, and at a recent one, Barrett was confronted with a deranged heckler.

Her response was pitch-perfect.

Left wing protestor: "Amy Coney Barrett, you are an enslaver of women!"

Justice Barrett: "Fortunately, as a mother of seven, I am used to distractions, and sometimes even outbursts." pic.twitter.com/TTYkxbNwPS

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 12, 2022

I’m constantly astonished at just how insane the far-left has become. It’s not just that they hold detestable, deeply harmful views that I don’t agree with. It’s also that they express them in a way that, at best, mimics mental illness. What kind of person goes to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to shout about enslaving women as a defense of…(checks notes)…killing women via abortion?

Besides, how is Amy Coney Barrett an “enslaver” of women? What women in the United States are currently being enslaved? And what decisions have come before the Supreme Court to this point in her tenure that Barrett has voted on that led to the enslavement of such women? If you are going to heckle someone, at least make what you have to say clever. The far-left puts no effort in, though. They just shout stupidity about the Handmaid’s Tale over and over, because no other show or book exists apparently, and then think they’ve done something profound.

But even taking this type of lunacy at face value, it still makes no sense. Do you know what’s worse than supposedly “enslaving” women by overturning Roe v. Wade? Injecting them with poison, killing them, and sucking them out with a vacuum. And to be sure, pregnancy, something that is voluntarily entered into by nearly every woman who conceives, is not slavery. What kind of depraved person decides that killing a child is somehow the preferable and morally superior position?

Yet, here we are, living in a country where millions of people do take that view. Frankly, I’ve got no patience for it. As I’ve said before, there’s a lot in politics I’ll chalk up to disagreement. I don’t think someone is evil for wanting to forgive student loan debt or for wanting to raise taxes. Those are policy questions, as misguided as I think the other side is. But abortion is about the fundamental right to life for every human being and whether we will allow the continued wholesale slaughter of millions of them. So no matter what, I’ll be standing where I’m standing on this issue.

Moving back to Barrett, she’s got a quick wit, and I respect that. I just hope she holds firm to her past statements on abortion when the matter comes before the court this summer. In the end, Democrats are going to hate her with a fiery passion no matter what. There is no reason to try to assuage them, and I don’t think she will.