Little Sisters of the Poor: Confirming Neil Gorsuch Would Protect Us From Obama’s Abortion Mandate

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Little Sisters of the Poor: Confirming Neil Gorsuch Would Protect Us From Obama’s Abortion Mandate
Kelsey Harkness   Feb 10, 2017   |   12:23PM    Washington, DC

After President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, Democrats promised a fight, calling the federal appeals judge an extremist and a threat to women’s health care.

“I have deep, serious concerns about Judge Gorsuch,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “An extreme ideologue on the court will threaten privacy rights, including women’s health care, worker and consumer protections, and public health and safety.”

Some of that criticism dates back to a legal brief Gorsuch filed in 2015 on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns who care for the sick and elderly. After being forced to provide contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs to employees under an Obamacare provision, the nuns sued, and Gorsuch came to their defense.

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