Kavanaugh ruled in 2007 regarding 2 cases, in which mentally incompetent pregnant women wanted to have their babies and fought forced abortion, that the wishes of the woman need not be considered at all. The state need not ask intellectually disabled women what they want and that if they express a wish not to undergo forced abortion that need not even be presented in gaining permission for involuntary medical procedures.

These cases were not about whether the state should be able to abort babies who would become a burden on the state or who might possibly be "defectives," although those arguments were clearly served here. The issue was the mother's right to have a say in what is done to her body and her baby, and Kavanaugh's answer: a complete NO right.

Kavanaugh's history is being kept from being considered in the confirmation hearings as much as the Republicans can manage. But he has a long history of rulings on issues like employment discrimination, education access and health care policy that all threaten the individual's right to choose for himself what’s best for himself. Individual rights are denied in favor of the power of business and government to decide.

Kavanaugh is being placed on the court to establish authoritarian government and destroy the liberal principles written into our constitution at its inception.

Thanks for sharing that. This needs to be broadcast far and wide!

the right of women to control their bodies in common, and expanding the state's right to decide.

That's not to say he won't vote to make abortion unconstitutional, just that his positions seem to not be only about a right to life but about the state's control over the individual.

Then there's that case where Kavanaugh dissented in a case to allow an undocumented immigrant teenager in federal custody to get an abortion. He objected to what he said was creating "a NEW right" to "abortion on demand" by these minors in custody whose pregnancies were fast advancing every day toward a point when it would not be legally possible.

Because of Roe v Wade, these girls' actual right to abortion itself was not on the line, only their right to choose to abort when in federal custody. He said the decision to provide or withhold abortion should be the state's when in custody.

It's all too easy to imagine a fast approaching day when all American women would be effectively in federal custody, i.e., under a fascist state where duty is not of the state to serve the individual but of the citizenry to the state.

I swear, that is exactly what most so-called "pro-life" men think.

... but it doesn't account for women who are pro-life (soi-disant), yet want to defund PP.

-- Mal