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In October 2020, as the U.S. Senate began confirmation hearings for U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court opening created after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, social media users began circulating a bit of text purportedly reproducing comments from Barrett likening the act of breastfeeding to child molestation: This text was circulated with caustic and derogatory comments about Barrett, such as the following: However, we found no source outside of this meme itself that reported or documented Barrett’s having said any such thing. Neither these words nor anything like them appeared in any credible news reports, in any transcripts of Barrett's public comments or press events, nor in any of Barrett’s published writings that we could find. These words appear to have originated with an unrelated Facebook post that someone later maliciously or mistakenly associated with the Supreme Court nominee:
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