Do you have a pro-life Republican senator?

[rydra_wong]

Maybe you'd like to phone them and tell them about how BRETT KAVANAUGH SUPPORTS FORCED ABORTIONS.

This is a script of genius:

https://beatrice-otter.tumblr.com/post/177933347882/kavanaugh-thinks-its-okay-to-perform-elective

Now, in the interests of strict accuracy, I will note that the ruling Kavanaugh wrote isn't specifically about abortion (though two of the cases involved are about abortions performed without consent); it covers doing any sort of medical procedure on the "mentally incompetent" without consent.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kavanaugh-disabilities-elective-surgeries/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_ex._rel._Tarlow_v._District_of_Columbia

So to me personally, the issue would be the GLARING ABLEISM rather than the abortion issue per se.

However, it is true that Brett Kavanaugh did, in fact, support the right of doctors to perform abortions on patients without consent.

Since they're not deterred by his multiple perjuries, maybe hearing a bit about how Brett Kavanaugh supports forced abortions might give a few GOP senators pause for thought.

(I'm sure some of them still secretly believe in Buck v. Bell, but I suspect they may not be willing to say publicly "We are always pro-life except for how we don't want the disableds to breed.")

Note: as a disabled person, I think that making medical decisions regarding people who genuinely aren't able to understand the consequences of not having a procedure and make an informed decision can be a complex moral and political issue.

However, since Kavanaugh's ruling is "nah, you don't even need to try to find out their wishes or what capacity they have, as long as you think it's in their best interests it's cool", I feel comfortable saying that he can go to hell.

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

That is indeed a script of genius! Thank you for this! (The staffers I talked to asked for the spelling of the case, so someone might actually look it up)

[rydra_wong]

The staffers I talked to asked for the spelling of the case

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[executrix]

The Republicans are inspired by the Squeerses in Nicholas Nickleby who were ready to provide nourishing broth to a dying boy as soon as he couldn't swallow it, and who gave him the best dictionary in the house as a pillow. If you *want* an abortion they won't let you have it, if you don't want one you have to. They'll fight forever to keep an unconscious person on life support but they won't fund life-saving care for people whose lives could be made better. They're the pro-suffering party.

[elisi]

I can't. How is he so consistently awful?

/rhetorical question