What Neil Gorsuch Means In the Battle Over Abortion Rights

Several pro-abortion rights groups said Gorsuch’s position on abortion remains unclear, but that they oppose his nomination based on past statements by the President. “We take seriously [Trump’s] promise to nominate a justice who will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade,” said Marcia D. Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center in a statement. “He promised to nominate someone in the mold of Justice Scalia, whose record on women’s rights is dismal.”