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Trumps 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
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 didnt 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 Kavanaughs nomination.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-birth-control_us_5b917b79e4b0162f472b3cb8
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,147 posts)Mariana
(14,849 posts)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)The medical community doesnt consider them abortive. Religious nutbags do.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)A rare moment of truth telling on his part.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)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!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)sdfernando
(4,897 posts)Never hear a peep about condoms or vacectomies.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)But Ive seen these people all the time try to confuse people that both Plan B and birth control itself cause abortions. Its a talking point I see among conservatives, and have had to correct many times.
They want The Handmaids Tale in America.
lark
(23,003 posts)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.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)every sperm is great
if any sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate...."
Monty Python, The Meaning of Life
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)blue neen
(12,308 posts)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
vlyons
(10,252 posts)They block conception in the first place, as do IUDs.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)Mariana
(14,849 posts)Lots of churches are spreading this lie.
riversedge
(69,727 posts)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."
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blue neen
(12,308 posts)What, do they just want a new and constant supply of children to abuse?
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Forget about Roe v Wade. Banning premarital sex and homosexuality is on the agenda for the next 25 years.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)1950s here we come!
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)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.
JHB
(37,132 posts)moondust
(19,917 posts)Does he mistakenly believe all contraceptives are mifepristone and misoprostol (abortion pill)?
Or just pushing RW propaganda?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)For a good Catholic, that number should be higher. Methinks someone is/was using birth control.
maxrandb
(15,192 posts)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)of Catholics and birth control. They're doctrinarily against it, but they all use it.