Brett Kavanaugh defends position on migrant teen who sought an abortion

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said that a disagreement he had about allowing a teen under government custody to have an abortion was based on former rulings allowing the government to regulate abortion.

The case, Garza v. Hargan, was filed against the Trump administration after officials prevented the girl from getting an abortion, delaying its eventual occurrence, and instead took her to visit a Christian crisis pregnancy center. The D.C. Circuit sided with the teen, who was in the U.S. illegally, and Kavanaugh dissented.