Think Progress Is Very, Very Angry Facebook Called Their Fake Story A Fake Story

Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the thousands of pro-choice and pro-abortion pundits and advocates all missed a major moment in last week's hearing about the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Evidently, he told everyone that he would overturn Roe v. Wade!

So sayeth ThinkProgress's Ian Millhiser (or, more likely, the android who replaced him after he wassent to a secret Trump gulag). "Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week and almost no one noticed," read the headline of his September 9th piece.

Milihiser's claim is dodgy, to put it mildly. His argument is twofold:

1. In response to a question from Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz during his confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh said that "Supreme Court precedent protects certain unenumerated rights so long as the rights are, as the Supreme Court said in theGlucksberg case, rooted in history and tradition," and that "I think all roads lead to theGlucksberg test as the test that the Supreme Court has settled on as the proper test."

2. A year earlier, Kavanaugh said in a speech honoring the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist that "even a first-year law student could tell you that the Glucksberg approach to unenumerated rights was not consistent with the approach of the abortion cases such asRoe v. Wade in 1973 — as well as the 1992 decision reaffirming Roe, known as Planned Parenthood v. Casey."

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