Pro-Kavanaugh Councilman: 'Better Get Your Coat Hangers Ready'
A West Virginia city councilman seemed to insinuat that women should prepare to have dangerous back alley abortions after the U.S. Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday.
“Better get you’re coathangers ready liberals,” (sic) Parkersburg City Councilman Eric Barber, an anti-abortion activist, wrote in a now-deleted Facebook comment shortly after Kavanaugh’s confirmation. The comment can still be seen thanks to screenshots shared by local residents.
Women’s rights groups fear Kavanaugh, a conservative justice whose nomination by President Trump was first approved by the right-wing, anti-abortion Federalist Society, could overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. Coat hangers are often cited as a tool that was used to induce unsafe abortions when women did not have access to legal abortions by licensed practicians.
Eric Engle, a local activist, shared a screenshot of the comment and called Barber “the most worthless piece of human garbage I’ve ever encountered.”
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