I've been pondering from whence comes the hill-to-die-on intensity of Kavanaugh's opponents. Most say it boils down to Roe v. Wade, to abortion's continued legality. I suppose they must be correct.
If one's chosen lifestyle includes recreational sex with partners whose names may not stick in memory, the continued availability of abortion is absolutely essential. One may never need an abortion, but knowing it's there if needed converts certain otherwise difficult life choices into definite options that, in an earlier era, all but the reckless would have rejected as fraught with peril.
