Brett Kavanaugh was right to call contraception an ‘abortion-inducing drug’

Published September 10, 2018 5:36pm ET



Abortion enthusiasts are in a huff because Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh referred to contraception as “abortion-inducing drugs” when asked about his dissent in Priests for Life’s case against the Health and Human Services mandate.

In a statement from the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood’s Dawn Laguens said: “Kavanaugh referred to birth control ― something more than 95 percent of women use in their lifetime ― as an ‘abortion-inducing drug,’ which is not just flat-out wrong, but is anti-woman, anti-science propaganda.” Her quote was carried here, here and who knows where else.

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