The U.S. Senate confirmed Wendy Vitter to a federal district court despite fierce opposition from Democrats over her past anti-abortion activism.
Vitter was confirmed Thursday to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by a vote of 52 to 45, filling a seat that’s been open since August 2016.
She attended a rally protesting Planned Parenthood in 2013, and said it was the “saddest of ironies that they,” referring to the group, “kill over 150,000 females a year” through abortion, because the “first step in promoting women’s health is to let them live.”
She received the “Proudly ...