President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court in Louisiana faced repeated questioning about her past criticism of Planned Parenthood, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) focused on a statement that Wendy Vitter, nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, made criticizing the group at a rally protesting the organization in 2013.
Blumenthal quoted her as saying that it’s “the saddest of ironies that they,” referring to the organization, “kill over 150,000 females a year” through abortion, because the “first step in promoting women’s health is to let them ...
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