{"id":2847,"date":"2018-07-12T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/12\/kavanaugh-is-a-threat-to-womens-health\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T13:36:00","slug":"kavanaugh-is-a-threat-to-womens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/kavanaugh-is-a-threat-to-womens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh Is A Threat To Women\u2019s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Kavanaugh, is a threat to women’s health. If he is successfully appointed, he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. We know this because Trump admitted it is a litmus test for his Supreme Court nominees, and because  Kavanaugh has a long record of undermining women’s access to reproductive care.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trump said that overturning Roe v. Wade would be a litmus test for his nominee.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“It is. It is.” –<\/span> Trump<\/a>, on whether overturning Roe v. Wade would be a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees, 2015<\/p>\n

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“I will be appointing pro-life judges.” –<\/span> Trump<\/a>, 2016<\/p>\n

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Mike Pence was closely involved in Trump’s judicial nominations after promising that a Trump-appointed justice would overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“If we appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court as Donald Trump intends to do, I believe we’ll see Roe v. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history.”<\/span> – Pence<\/a>, 2016<\/p>\n

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Kavanaugh has made decisions that undermine women’s health. He voted to block a teenage immigrant in HHS custody from obtaining an abortion without delay.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Business Insider<\/a><\/span>: “Kavanaugh previously voted against giving an undocumented teen access to abortion in a key case, which may provide insight into his opinions of abortion rights in the US.”<\/p>\n

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Kavanaugh dissented from a ruling to uphold the ACA’s birth control benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a><\/span>: “In a separate case associated with the Affordable Care Act, Kavanaugh dissented when the DC Circuit declined a full court review of a religious group's objection to the process for employers seeking to opt out of the contraceptive mandate.”<\/p>\n

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Kavanaugh has the support of anti-choice groups and is an active member of the Federalist Society, whose president is a board member of an anti- choice group. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Roll Call<\/a><\/span>: “Kavanaugh, a conservative judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, has the support of anti-abortion groups and could play a key role in attempts to limit or overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade case, as a number of abortion cases make their way through the lower courts. […] Kavanaugh is an active member of The Federalist Society, a group that had been helping Trump with his list of candidates. The group’s executive vice president, Leonard Leo, is also a board member of the anti-abortion group Students for Life of America.”<\/p>\n

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A majority of Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a><\/span>: “As President Trump prepares to make a new Supreme Court nomination, new polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that two-thirds (67%) of the public do not want the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that established women’s constitutional right to abortion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Kavanaugh, is a threat to women’s health. If he is successfully appointed, he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. 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