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turbinetree

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Sat Jun 30, 2018, 06:22 PM Jun 2018

HHS official celebrates Kennedy retirement with anti-choice activists: 'We're just getting started'

With Justice Kennedy on the way out, the assault on women's rights is fully underway.

ADAM PECK JUN 30, 2018, 4:37 PM

It’s been less than a week since Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, but already anti-women activists are plotting how best to take advantage of a weakened judicial branch in order to undermine access to safe abortions.

Kennedy was long thought to be the crucial swing vote on any legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, having already upheld the landmark decision in 1992. With his departure, Donald Trump will have an opportunity to nominate a second person to the bench, one who figures to be far less sympathetic towards women’s rights.

In case there was any doubt about the administration’s intentions behind filling Kennedy’s seat, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services Roger Severino appeared at the National Right to Life Convention on Thursday in Overland Park, Kansas and assured the crowd of anti-woman activists that the Trump administration was “just getting started.”,

“Our president is fearless when it comes to life and conscience,” Severino added.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-war-women-health-f911853ed071/


So everyone go back and google who hired this asshole....................one fucking asshole............"former" Health Secretary Tom Price..................you know the guy that had drug stocks to make a buck and didn't tell anyone when he was being confirmed................

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/senators-deeply-troubled-trump-s-new-health-department-pick-n747376



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................vote

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