Progressives Use Edited Remarks To Attack Kavanaugh On Contraception
http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/08/kavanaugh-abortion-inducing-drugs/
Senate Democrats and liberal interest groups opposed to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are arguing the judge should not be confirmed in view of comments he made during his confirmation hearing characterizing ordinary contraceptives as "abortion-inducing drugs."
The full context of Kavanaugh's remarks does not suggest that he views contraceptives as abortifacients, though some progressives used edited renditions of his statement to create that impression.
The discussion of contraceptives arose when GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas asked Kavanaugh about a dissent he wrote in a case called Priests for Life v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a First Amendment challenge to the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate. Though Obamacare includes an opt-out provision for religious groups with moral objections to birth control, the plaintiffs in Priests for Life argued the fix was inadequate and still burdened their religious beliefs.
"It was a technical matter of filling out a form in that case," Kavanaugh told Cruz. "But they said filling out the form would make them complicit in the provision of the abortion-inducing drugs that they were, as a religious matter, objected to."
Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California tweeted a selectively edited video of the judge's remarks, which exclude the words "they said" from his statement, creating the impression that the phrase "abortion-inducing drugs" reflected Kavanaugh's own considered opinion, and not those of the Catholic priests challenging the contraception mandate.
Kamala Harris deceitfully smeared Judge Kavanaugh with her delusional fantasy about the words she lamely attempted to put in his mouth ...
"Kavanaugh chooses his words very carefully, and this is a dog whistle for going after birth control. He was nominated for the purpose of taking away a woman's constitutionally protected right to make her own health care decisions. Make no mistake - this is about punishing women."
Planned Parenthood issued a press release attacking Kavanaugh in view of the remarks, which similarly cleaved the words "they said" from his statement. A spokesperson for the organization later called the omission an error.
Kavanaugh allies quickly pointed out that the judge was not sharing his personal views, but describing the arguments of the Priests for Life.
"Judge Kavanaugh was plainly describing the parties' arguments in the case, not stating his own views," former Kavanaugh clerk Travis Lenker told CNN. "That's why he used the words 'they said' - words that are being conveniently omitted from the quotation lifted out of context." ...
Of course, the retards on the Further Freedom From Thought Board eagerly scarfed up this propagandistic lie and ran with it. ROTFLMAO! When are you idiots going to learn that your masters at The HuffPo are pathetic liars who are playing you for fools, eh? Don't worry ... I'll go ahead and answer that easy question, myself. You won't ever figure out that your libtard betters are using you like a bunch of clueless schmucks and laugh at you behind your backs - because you're too willfully stupid.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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