Kavanaugh lauded Rehnquist for dissenting in Roe vs. Wade

Judge Brett Kavanaugh meets with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

justices heard a challenge to a Texas law that made all abortions a crime, except those done to save the life of the mother. In Roe vs. Wade, along with Justice

Byron R. White, Rehnquist “ultimately dissented from the court’s 7-2 holding recognizing a constitutional right to abortion,” Kavanaugh said.