Actress-turned-activist Alyssa Milano is still reeling from the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
In an op-ed published Monday by Refinery 29, Milano calls Kavanaugh’s confirmation an “all-out attack by our government against women.”
Milano made waves when she attended a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 27 in support of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.
Milano writes in the op-ed that with Kavanaugh, the Trump administration may have secured the vote they need to roll back Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that guaranteed the right to abortions nationwide.
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“The future of that right, the right of women to control their own bodies, was dealt a devastating blow by a Senate that is only 23 percent women, led by a Republican Judiciary Committee that is white and entirely male,” Milano warns. “And it cannot stand.”
The problem goes beyond Kavanaugh to the lower courts, where more than 80 newly approved federal judges have been “rammed through” by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in what she calls a “cowardly assault against a woman’s reproductive freedom.”
Abortion rights she points out, are currently under threat in West Virginia and Oregon, where voters could decide to ban Medicaid coverage for the procedure, putting it out of financial reach for low-income women.
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