Posted on 09/07/2018 2:11:49 PM PDT by Morgana
Kavanaugh declines answering questions about Trump comments
Every day this week, dozens of protesters on Capitol Hill were arrested, as hundreds more flooded the halls of the U.S. Senate and nearby grounds around congressional buildings.
Their objective was clear: To express deep opposition to and concern about President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
ABC News spoke to several of the protesters including many who flew across the country for the demonstrations in the nation’s capital.
The activists ranged in age and ethnicity. Many were women and connected to health, reproductive rights or environmental groups.
Some were brought by groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America to tell their personal stories.
These organizations say Kavanaugh’s prior, socially conservative decisions -– as well as the blessing he has received from staunchly anti-abortion organizations -- show that if confirmed to the highest court, he would likely use that post to restrict women’s access to abortions or overturn landmark cases that make abortion legal in the U.S.
And, that "can't happen," Susan Johnston told ABC News.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Banshees, the whole lot of them.
You think Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, Dick (Turban) Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Richard Blumenthal are spring chickens?
The Republicans only had two old geezers: Grassley and Hatch, both of whom are retiring after their terms are up.
Abortion is NOT birth control,
abortion is a procedure used to tidy up a LACK of
birth control.
Birth control is something you do BEFORE you create
a living being.
Once that being is conceived they have as much right
to life as any other human.
Some of them may even be true
False history, the pill came out in 1960 which is greater than 56 years ago
Some of the 70-year-olds of today are the hippie radicals of the 60s - age does not necessarily bestow them respect
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