CNSNews.com spent the first few days of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh obsessing about its favorite subject, abortion.
A Sept. 5 article by Susan Jones seemed to be upset that Kavanaugh said that Roe v. Wade is “an important precedent of the Supreme Court that’s been reaffirmed many times.”
An anonymously written article the same day — credited only to “CNSNews.com Staff” grumbled that Kavanaugh called outgoing Justice Anthony Kennedy “a mentor, a friend and a hero,” disdainfully adding that “Kennedy co-authored the court’s opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey—which upheld Roe v. Wade’s declaration that abortion is a constitutionally protected right” and that “In 2015, Kennedy wrote the court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, declaring same-sex marriage a constitutional right.”
Another anonymously written article huffed that “Lisa Blatt, a pro-abortion attorney who backed Barack Obama and then Hillary Clinton for president and who says she wished Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had ‘“all nine votes” on the Supreme Court, introduced Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Judiciary Committee.’ The headline on the article called Blatt a “pro-abort” — a derogatory slang term within the anti-abortion movement, of which CNS is a part.
A Sept. 6 article, also anonymously written, focused on Kavanaugh’s role in a case earlier this year in which a federal appeals court on which Kavanaugh sits allowed an underage “illegal alien” to obtain an abortion. CNS complained that Kavanaugh “accepted the conclusion that Planned Parenthood v. Casey did apply to the detained illegal alien’s case” and that “Kavanaugh did not contest that she had a right to an abortion in the United States. He argued that she did not have a right to get the abortion ‘immediately,’ only ‘expeditiously.'”
Meanwhile, CNS editor in chief Terry Jeffrey spent half of his Sept. 5 column on abortion, grousing that Kavanaugh quoted Kennedy, who wrote the Casey decision that upheld the right to abortion, saying that “Justice Kennedy established a legacy of liberty for ourselves and our posterity,” to which Jeffrey sneered, “Unless your posterity happens to be unborn.” Jeffrey also declared that the appeals court judge who opined that the “illegal alien” teenager who sought an abortion did not have a right to one “answered it correctly.”