Hillary Clinton Peddles Thoroughly Debunked Claim About Kavanaugh and Birth Control

Twice-failed presidential candidate and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton tweeted yet another warning about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh Thursday, claiming he called birth control “abortion-inducing drugs.”

I want to be sure we're all clear about something that Brett Kavanaugh said in his confirmation hearings last week. He referred to birth-control pills as "abortion-inducing drugs." That set off a lot of alarm bells for me, and it should for you, too.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 12, 2018

There's just one problem with this: multiple fact-checkers, including Politifact and The Washington Post, have rated that claim “false.” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) faced widespread criticism for deceptively editing Kavanaugh’s comment to make it sound like he was calling birth control “abortion-inducing drugs” when it was very clear that he was simply summarizing a plaintiff’s position.

Hillary Clinton was criticized for her claims by many Washington Post journalists who wondered why she tweeted something so demonstrably false.

6 days later? And after this has been thoroughly debunked by fact-checkers!?https://t.co/UKOandLEBThttps://t.co/BC2E1agvPy https://t.co/XYVPToWGkS

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) September 12, 2018

This claim received Four Pinocchios yesterday. No excuse to repeat it today, @HillaryClinton https://t.co/gCJG1bFGuf https://t.co/dfkOvKnJ7v

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 12, 2018

The @washingtonpost fact checked this and it’s pretty clear Kavanaugh was referring to the plaintiff’s arguments in the case when he said that phrase https://t.co/Wf632bn8tL https://t.co/lh4RBnGY8I

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 12, 2018

Clinton has been very vocal on Twitter in opposition to Kavanaugh, recently saying that “of course” he would overturn Roe v. Wade.

Sen. Orrin Hatch’s (R-UT) office posited one reason Clinton may have missed all those fact checks.

Maybe the fact checks she missed were in Wisconsin. https://t.co/FDYXYOzzBR

— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) September 12, 2018