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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:22 PM Sep 2018

Brett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As 'Abortion-Inducing Drugs' At Confirmation Hearing

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee defended his support of Priests for Life on the third day of his hearing.
By Jenavieve Hatch POLITICS 09/06/2018 03:37 pm ET Updated 1 hour ago

On the third day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he referred to contraception as “abortion-inducing drugs.”

Judge Kavanaugh was responding to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday about his 2015 dissent in the Priests for Life v. HHS case. Kavanaugh had sided with the religious organization, which didn’t want to provide employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives.


Priests for Life, a Catholic group that opposes abortion rights, filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services in 2013 over the provision under the Affordable Care Act that required certain health care providers to cover birth control. The group argued that the provision was a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ― the same premise of the Hobby Lobby lawsuit in 2014.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled against Priests for Life in 2014. When the group tried and failed to get a full court hearing the next year, Kavanaugh dissented to lay out why he would have ruled for them.

This year, the group celebrated Kavanaugh’s nomination.



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-birth-control_us_5b917b79e4b0162f472b3cb8
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Brett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As 'Abortion-Inducing Drugs' At Confirmation Hearing (Original Post) workinclasszero Sep 2018 OP
Either he's ignorant of science or has an agenda. Either way, he should not be a justice. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2018 #1
There has been a serious effort Mariana Sep 2018 #18
Some forms of birth control work post conception Major Nikon Sep 2018 #20
Meaning that he would also vote to ban birth control as well as abortions, one assumes. guillaumeb Sep 2018 #2
Yes that's exactly what that means workinclasszero Sep 2018 #4
Exactly. And they are trying to confuse the voters. eom guillaumeb Sep 2018 #6
No, just those used by females sdfernando Sep 2018 #11
Yeah, they don't often tip their hands they're anti-birth control bettyellen Sep 2018 #5
Wow, the mask slipped big time on that answer. lark Sep 2018 #3
These men think every single sperm they spew is the start of life GemDigger Sep 2018 #7
"every sperm is sacred shanny Sep 2018 #8
Just like that. GemDigger Sep 2018 #12
Well there's the minor difference that Monty Python wasn't being serious mythology Sep 2018 #25
Don't priests have other things to worry about? blue neen Sep 2018 #9
Birth control pills don't induce abortion vlyons Sep 2018 #10
Correct. But it means Kavanaugh wants to outlaw contraception after abortion. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #15
Many, many people believe otherwise. Mariana Sep 2018 #19
To block women's access to contraception, Kavanaugh ruled that it was "too burdensome" for employers riversedge Sep 2018 #13
"Priests for Life"? blue neen Sep 2018 #14
Maria Law is on the way! RhodeIslandOne Sep 2018 #16
Yep workinclasszero Sep 2018 #17
Premarital sex in the 50's KentuckyWoman Sep 2018 #21
Freeze! You are under arrest for unauthorized copulation! JHB Sep 2018 #24
Ignorance? moondust Sep 2018 #22
K&R Scurrilous Sep 2018 #23
He's 53 with only 2 kids DeminPennswoods Sep 2018 #26
It's NEVER been about "life" or any of that bullshit maxrandb Sep 2018 #27
Just pointing out the hypocrisy DeminPennswoods Sep 2018 #28

Mariana

(14,849 posts)
18. There has been a serious effort
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 12:15 AM
Sep 2018

to confuse people into believing that RU486 and Plan B are the same thing. There is also an effort going on to convince people that morning after pills and even ordinary daily birth control pills, work by inducing abortions. IUD's too. Many, many people believe this - it was the basis of Hobby Lobby's refusal to provide coverage for BC.

Major Nikon

(36,814 posts)
20. Some forms of birth control work post conception
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 12:22 AM
Sep 2018

The medical community doesn’t consider them abortive. Religious nutbags do.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. Meaning that he would also vote to ban birth control as well as abortions, one assumes.
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:25 PM
Sep 2018

A rare moment of truth telling on his part.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
4. Yes that's exactly what that means
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:32 PM
Sep 2018

The religious right Trump cult is going after not only abortion but any and all means of contraception!

The defeat of Roe v Wade will just be the beginning, count on that!

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
5. Yeah, they don't often tip their hands they're anti-birth control
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:35 PM
Sep 2018

But I’ve seen these people all the time try to confuse people that both Plan B and birth control itself “cause abortions”. It’s a talking point I see among conservatives, and have had to correct many times.
They want The Handmaid’s Tale in America.

lark

(23,003 posts)
3. Wow, the mask slipped big time on that answer.
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:32 PM
Sep 2018

The far right has long wanted to ban birth control and Kavanaugh let this little secret out in public. They want us women to have no control over our reproduction so there are more desperately poor women who can't afford the fees for the non-public schools they also want to make mandatory and so their uneducated children will be paid basically nothing and be little more than serfs. This baron/serf model has been the RW oligarchs dream and what they are still working towards. Brett Kavanaugh is a trojan horse for PUtin & drumpf.

 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
8. "every sperm is sacred
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:49 PM
Sep 2018

every sperm is great
if any sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate...."

Monty Python, The Meaning of Life

blue neen

(12,308 posts)
9. Don't priests have other things to worry about?
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:49 PM
Sep 2018

Like the Grand Jury report in Pennsylvania, where it shows that over 1000 children were sexually abused by priests? More people are now coming forward with stories of abuse, so the number could be well over 2000 children! The priests in PA practically had a pedophile ring going!

"In Pittsburgh, Shapirio spoke of a group of four priests who took a boy identified as George to the rectory of a Munhall parish and had him stand on a bed and remove his clothes as they discussed the image of Christ on the cross, the grand jury reported. They took Polaroid pictures of the boy, which “were added to a collection of similar photos of other teenage boys,” the report states."

"The alleged victim told the grand jury that the priests gave their victims gifts, including gold cross necklaces."

“They were a visible designation that these children were victims of sexual abuse. They were a signal to other predators that the children had been desensitized to sexual abuse and were optimal targets for further victimization,” the grand jury wrote."

https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/13973314-74/grand-jury-names-20-greensburg-priests-99-from-pittsburgh-in-catholic-sex

riversedge

(69,727 posts)
13. To block women's access to contraception, Kavanaugh ruled that it was "too burdensome" for employers
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 06:54 PM
Sep 2018




Sen Dianne Feinstein
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To block women's access to contraception, Kavanaugh ruled that it was "too burdensome" for employers to fill out a two page form.

But to block women's access to abortion, he ruled that getting court approval for the procedure was "not burdensome enough."

#WhatsAtStake
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RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
16. Maria Law is on the way!
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:33 PM
Sep 2018

Forget about Roe v Wade. Banning premarital sex and homosexuality is on the agenda for the next 25 years.

KentuckyWoman

(6,666 posts)
21. Premarital sex in the 50's
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 12:23 AM
Sep 2018

led to a lot of marriages........ and a lot of divorces in the 70's and 80's. To make it work they'd have to ban divorce.

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
26. He's 53 with only 2 kids
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 07:32 AM
Sep 2018

For a good Catholic, that number should be higher. Methinks someone is/was using birth control.

maxrandb

(15,192 posts)
27. It's NEVER been about "life" or any of that bullshit
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 07:44 AM
Sep 2018

It's always been about the rich and powerful controlling the poor and the weak.

Just like they say that there are "no atheist in a foxhole", you can say that "there are no anti-abortion wealthy when their teen daughter is pregnant via rape, or would die from being force to carry to term".

Kavanaugh and all the other sanctimonious rich assholes WILL ALWAYS HAVE ACCESS CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION ON DEMAND

It's just the "worthless takers" that they want to punish, and women that they want to control.

If you grab a man by the balls, you can easily control him.

If you grab a woman by the pu**y....

Kavanaugh is the Access Hollywood tape made law.

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
28. Just pointing out the hypocrisy
Fri Sep 7, 2018, 07:47 AM
Sep 2018

of Catholics and birth control. They're doctrinarily against it, but they all use it.

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