The lawyer who represented the Mississippi clinic at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court case that resulted in the overturning of women's constitutional right to abortion pledged during Senate testimony on Wednesday to follow that ruling despite her past advocacy if she is confirmed to the federal judiciary.
Julie Rikelman, nominated by Democratic President Joe Biden to serve on the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in her confirmation hearing in Washington that she would follow the June ruling despite having fought to preserve abortion rights.
"You have spent the majority of your professional life as an extreme zealot advocating for abortion," Republican Senator Ted Cruz told Rikelman. "That is clearly a heartfelt and personal passion of yours." Rikelman represented Mississippi's only abortion clinic in challenging a Republican-backed law that banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.Republican Senator Mike Lee took issue with Rikelman's claim in an article by Axios that the Dobbs ruling would result in the "biggest public health crisis that we have seen in decades."
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