Whoopi Comes for Clarence Thomas: Your Marriage Rights Are Next!
The View’s big trip to the Bahamas to mark the daytime talk show’s 25th anniversary kicked off on a less than celebratory note on Monday as the hosts weighed in for the first time on the Supreme Court decision that removed women’s constitutional right to make decisions about their own bodies.
As moderator Whoopi Goldberg explained at the start of the show, the news broke while the team was flying down from New York. Joy Behar, meanwhile, joked that she almost “jumped out of the plane.”
Each co-host expressed their shock and dismay—despite plenty of warning—that we are now living in a post-Roe America. But it was Goldberg who had the strongest words, specifically for Justice Clarence Thomas, who opened the door in his opinion for the rollback of other fundamental rights for women, LGBTQ Americans and others.