With all the other fireworks at Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing today this may have been lost, but not with women (and men) on the Senate. Several are speaking out tonight after Kavanaugh seemed to refer to contraception as “abortion-inducing drugs.”

Huffington Post reports:

Judge Kavanaugh was responding to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday about his 2015 dissent in the Priests for Life v. HHS case. Kavanaugh had sided with the religious organization, which didn’t want to provide employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives.

Vice writes:

There are two things wrong here. First, birth control doesn’t cause abortions. The very name “contraception” means prevents conception, either by preventing the ovaries from releasing an egg, preventing sperm from fertilizing an egg, or preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. Medical experts agree that emergency contraception does not disrupt an established pregnancy (the medical and legal definition of pregnancy is that it begins after implantation).

Second, the plaintiff in that case objected to covering ALL forms of birth control, not just emergency contraception.