Clip of the Week: Kavanaugh vs. Roe vs. Wade

After Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy retired recently, the White House moved to nominate his replacement, one that was predicted will overturn Roe v. Wade, effectively quelling reproductive rights for women and other infringements on autonomy. Brett Kavanaugh has a substantial history of imposing decision-making on women's bodies on everyone but the women in question, including forcing a pregnant detained teenager to have a baby while incarcerated, in the name of "respecting traditions." New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is up for re-election this year, is in the process of updating previous outdated state legislation to make reproductive rights law, but if Kavanaugh is appointed, it may be overruled. While repealing reproductive rights is worrying, there are extensive concerns he will have beyond this if appointed, from slashing environmental protections, lessening the rights of workers, immigrants and voters, repealing same-sex marriage and the benefits that go with it and more infringements on the LGBTQ community, continuing to rescind the Affordable Care Act, clamping down on net neutrality, enforcing freedom of religion that will allow legal discrimination, protecting employers who refuse to cover workers' birth control coverage, and favoring the ability for the President to be above the law and declare laws unconstitutional with impunity.

In this Clip of the Week, the latest Gay USA covers Kavanaugh's nomination as Ann Northrop and Andy Humm discuss everything that could go horribily wrong if Congress doesn't stop this nomination that could lead to a majority conservative Supreme Court, with generations of lasting effects. Will Democrats stand up to protect constituents from these infringements? Watch the whole episode now.