Anti-abortion group calls on Franken, Klobuchar to reverse Sotomayor vote

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Anti-abortion group Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life called on Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken to reverse their Senate Judiciary Committee votes to approve Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday. In a letter to the senators, MCCL said that a legal board that Sotomayor once sat on advocated abortion rights.

“While Judge Sotomayor served on the governing board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), the PRLDEF was actively involved in litigation that attempted to advance the abortion agenda,” wrote Scott Fischbach, executive director of MCCL. “In fact, briefs that were filed by PRLDEF at the time urged the Court to regard abortion as a ‘fundamental right.’”

Despite the association outlined by Fischbach, Sotomayor has not yet ruled on an abortion or reproductive rights case.

“Women and unborn children in Minnesota have suffered long enough from the devastating results of Roe v. Wade and deserve a United States Supreme Court that will protect them from an aggressive abortion industry,” Fischbach wrote in the letter to Franken and Klobuchar.

MCCL’s letter is unlikely to change any positions. Both Franken and Klobuchar have indicated their support for reproductive rights as well as reducing the need for abortion through family planning.