“During his hearing today, Blanche committed to giving in to the dangerous demands of anti-abortion senators in an attempt to secure a position as Attorney General,” Katie O’Connor, senior director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center, told Jezebel in a statement. “Once again, Blanche has shown that he is a Trump loyalist above all else, and would rather further the president’s extreme anti-abortion agenda than work on behalf of the American public.”