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===Abortion===

===Abortion===

While Sotomayor has not ruled on many cases concerning abortion, she wrote a decision against a pro-choice group in '''Center for Reproductive Law and Policy vs. Bush'''.<ref>http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2009/05/26/sotomayors-abortion-ruling.aspx</ref>  The decision dismissed the claim of a Mexico-based organization which challenged policies requiring that foreign organizations neither perform nor promote abortions as a condition for receiving US funding.

Abortion supporters are alarmed that in a series of cases Sotomayor has consistently ruled against the abortion advocates.  The White House has stated that Obama did not ask her views on abortion or privacy.<ref> See [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/us/politics/28abortion.html?th&emc=th Charles Savage, "On Sotomayor, Some Abortion Rights Backers Show Unease," ''New York Times'' May 27, 2009]</ref>

* In a 2007 case, she strongly criticized colleagues on the court who said that only women, and not their husbands, could seek asylum based on China’s abortion policy. “The termination of a wanted pregnancy under a coercive population control program can only be devastating to any couple, akin, no doubt, to the killing of a child,” she wrote, also taking note of “the unique biological nature of pregnancy and special reverence every civilization has accorded to child-rearing and parenthood in marriage.”

 

* In a 2004 case, she sided with anti-abortion protesters who sued police officers for violating their constitutional rights by using excessive force to break up demonstrations at an abortion clinic. Judge Sotomayor said the protesters deserved a day in court.

 

*She wrote a decision against a pro-choice group in '''Center for Reproductive Law and Policy vs. Bush'''.<ref>http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2009/05/26/sotomayors-abortion-ruling.aspx</ref>  The decision dismissed the claim of a Mexico-based organization which challenged policies requiring that foreign organizations neither perform nor promote abortions as a condition for receiving US funding.

Sotomayor drew a distinction between "necessary" and "family planning" abortions: "For purposes of 22 U.S.C.S. � 2151b(f)(1), "abortion as a method of family planning" does not include abortions performed if the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or abortions performed following rape or incest (since abortion under these circumstances is not a family planning act)."

Sotomayor drew a distinction between "necessary" and "family planning" abortions: "For purposes of 22 U.S.C.S. � 2151b(f)(1), "abortion as a method of family planning" does not include abortions performed if the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or abortions performed following rape or incest (since abortion under these circumstances is not a family planning act)."