Shameful sham. Reuters Photo. Front photo by Alex Brandon/AP

In what was dubbed a telling "red-alarm moment" in his turbulent confirmation hearings Thursday, increasingly slimy Brett Kavanaugh dropped his fastidious "Roe v. Wade is important precedent" mask long enough to conflate birth control - a form of basic health care used by over 95% of women during their lifetimes - with "abortion-inducing drugs," a dog whistle used by extremist ideologues and blasted by critics as “anti-woman, anti-science propaganda.” With Kavanaugh's anti-choice views already clear, he had till then adopted a strategic caution, repeatedly assuring legislators he viewed Roe v. Wade as “important precedent” and "the settled law of the land."

"I understand the importance people attach to the Roe v. Wade decision," he told Diane Feinstein. "I don't live in a bubble." He does, however, live in a cagey house of lies and half-truths. He bickered with her about who "legal scholars" are; belittled women as "passionate," aka "hysterical," about Roe v. Wade; somehow forgot about a 2003 email in which he dismissed the "precedent" of Roe to argue, “Courts can always overrule"; and finally, lamely had to admit to the fabulous Kamala Harris that he drew a blank on laws governing men's bodies.

Explaining the case to Cruz, he argued the mandate was "a substantial burden on their religious exercise (that) would make them complicit in the abortion-inducing drugs that they were, as a religious matter, objected to (sic)." Except whoah: The case wasn't about abortion; it was about contraceptives, which duh, prevent pregnancy. Furious critics called his claim "flat-out wrong," "a People who can’t be bothered to learn the basics of how something works should never be allowed to make a decision regarding that something." "Newsflash, Brett Kavanaugh," railed Elizabeth Warren. "Contraception is NOT abortion. Anyone who says so is peddling extremist ideology - not science - and has no business sitting on the Supreme Court." If he gets there, warned Dawn Laguens of Planned Parenthood, “Women have every reason to believe their health and their lives are at stake.”

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We need Kamala Harris instead of this weasel. Getty Image.