Posted on 07/09/2018 7:14:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Soon after President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, he made a vow to fill the Supreme Court with “pro-life” judges — a promise that he kept when he announced Monday night that his SCOTUS pick was George W. Bush–appointed judge Brett Kavanaugh of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
When justice Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation on June 27, it was immediately clear that Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion in the U.S., would soon be under threat. While none of Trump’s 25 potential U.S. Supreme Court justice picks were advocates for reproductive rights, the extremity of their stances on LGBTQ issues and abortion slightly varied.
Kavanaugh has not explicitly vowed to overturn Roe v. Wade, nor has he made public statements indicating his intent to; he isn’t like William Pryor, a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and another potential SCOTUS nominee, who once called Roe v. Wade the “worst abomination in the history of constitutional law.” According to a source close to the White House, who spoke to the Washington Examiner about Kavanaugh, “There are concerns in the pro-life community that his decisions in some cases mean he’s not as solidly pro-life as we would like him to be.”
But that isn’t to say that Kavanaugh has never denied women their reproductive rights during his tenure. Just last year, he infamously ruled against an undocumented teenager in a detention facility who had petitioned for the right to access an abortion. At one point during the hearing, Kavanaugh suggested that allowing the young woman go through with the procedure would make the government “complicit” in something that is morally objectionable. In addition, in 2015, he argued in a dissent that Barack Obama’s contraception mandate infringed on the rights of religious organizations.
Following Trump’s announcement, multiple reproductive-rights organizations spoke out against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement: “We oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and call on the Senate to do the same. There’s no way to sugarcoat it: with this nomination, the constitutional right to access safe, legal abortion in this country is on the line. We already know how Brett Kavanaugh would rule on Roe v. Wade, because the president told us so.”
Melissa Fowler, a senior director at the National Abortion Federation, called Kavanaugh “an extreme judge” in a statement. “Kavanaugh tried to block an undocumented minor in government custody from exercising her constitutionally protected right to an abortion,” she said. “We need a Supreme Court justice who will honor established precedent, including the constitutional right to privacy and Roe v. Wade, and that is not Judge Brett Kavanaugh.”
Isn’t it an amazing coincidence that every issue and action by Trump brings identically worded statements all over the nation by every media outlet and journalist and politician on the left? Almost like a conspiracy.Trump electors won’t vote for him in the Electoral College,Trump is mentally unfit to lead, Trump is colluding with the Russians, Trump is going to overthrow Roe v.Wade.
And spontaneous protestors arrive with professionally produced placards and banners with the same phrases. Wow.
Absolutely. It is unbelievable, but unfortunately true, that there are women out there who would rather kill babies than keep their legs closed. That level of sick perversion is beyond imagination.
This argument is losing... because “Roe” no longer has any effect. No state will go too far to limit abortions because women voters just won’t let them.
Of course the abortion indistry lobbyists are concerned that profits will suffer, and they will.
To killing pre-born children. People still get to decide whether to try to reproduce or not.
All of that shows that I was right when I recommended against him before today’s announcement.
May the next nominee be pro-life.
Protecting innocent little preborn babies is the most important thing that the Supreme Court Justices can endorse, and to do so they need to fully overturn Roe, Casey, and all other pro-abortion decisions, not just agree to some paltry restrictions.
State legislators should not kneel before women voters who claim a right to murder babies between conception and birth.
Feminist women impugn men in the ugliest terms and yet refuse to stay off of men.
Have you seen video of the “grassroots” protest they had? Literally everyone came up the podium, ore-printed signs in hand, and screamed into the mic about their outrage, while others in the crowd simultaneity screamed their outrage into a megaphone. I tried to watch it but gave up after five minutes of incomprehensible screaming and yelling.
Well, “too far” isn’t well-defined.
There is evil in people. No law can change that.
I’d expect “Roe” to be replaced by a sensible 4th Amend based ruling.
One that wouldn’t just be a justification for the abortion factories’ donations to Dems.
Outline what you are referring to as a sensible Fourth Amendment based ruling.
Says it all right there.
Abortion. It must have started out being ‘getting rid/killing of a fetus’. I think that is how they described it back when. Women were, suppedly too naive and ignorant to know it was a baby.. it was a “fetus”, and it was okay to kill a fetus before it became a baby.
It’s been a long and profitable climb from then to now. They claim they do good work at the abortion clinics.. breast exams, etc. and it was given a pass, using that logic and that lie. It is... and it was... a baby killing practice.
We know they went from killing, to dismemberment and cutting parts and pieces from that “fetus” (baby) and making a fortune in selling those parts and pieces. They went from killing the baby in the first 3 months, to 6 months, to kiling it after it is born alive. The depravity they have stooped to!
I can hardly type that paragraph above.. it is beyond belief that women... mothers to be.. stand for killing the most innocent of all creatures.. a human baby.
They are on TV tonight, showing their most ugly side of humanity.. shouting and going beserk over their “right” to kill a human being, too small and innocent to defend itself. The thought of what they are yelling and demanding, sends chills throughout our country, as to what these women are standing for and demanding... they turn into monsters, desiring to kill at random, a baby. They would sooner save a dog left out in the heat, than to save a human life that got in their way!
It’s not “Reproductive rights”; it’s genocidal murder, crimes against humanity and destructive to those getting an abortion with a time delayed internal bomb of depression, which will go off.
Sorry. Don’t have the legal knowledge to do so. A sensible decision would not be based on ‘penumbras’ of the Fourth.
After ‘Roe’ abortion will be a political question. Until the Second Coming I expect it to be allowed. People are just not that good.
It would be like the Nazis calling concentration camps government housing with free utilities including showers.
Non-reproductive non-rights.
PMFJI, but I think what we’re getting at belongs in the “Judicial Overreach” category. When the Supreme Court did what it did in Roe, it short-circuited the political debate.
Bear in mind the time and context of the decision. The ERA was on the table. Nixon had created significant big state agencies such as EPA, and the Department of Energy was not far behind. Earl Warren was no longer Chief Justice. The Burger court held the concept of federal courts acting when the state legislatures wouldn’t.
IANAL. I believe, even still, Roe represented a wave of judicial thinking that crested. As the justices realized what that decision had done to the nation, and conservatives began to make the case judges were inventing laws where none existed, the pendulum started swinging back. Where it stops...
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