as a CO native I have to say, Gorsuch seems to be a straight shooter.

[niyad]

43. BS BS BS BS--this is a man who said that women "manipulate maternity leave"

What Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s SCOTUS Pick, Means for American Women

Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s nominee for the vacancy on the Supreme Court, is a consistently conservative judge who’d enter the court at a critical moment for reproductive rights. Though Gorsuch, a federal judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has never ruled on an abortion rights case, his record shows him to be hostile to women’s health care and willing to give broad leeway to institutions that want to discriminate against women.

Women will be affected by every decision that comes out of the next iteration of the Supreme Court, of course, whether the cases deal with voting rights, labor issues, immigrant rights, civil liberties, criminal justice, or any other area of law. Because women make less money than men, shoulder the bulk of home and family responsibilities, and have less access to traditional spheres of power, they are in fact particularly dependent on legal protections, and they will likely be disproportionately impacted by any harm that comes from the court’s decisions.


Nowhere is that clearer than in the field of public health. Anti-abortion advocates believe Trump and his pick will lead their fight to overturn Roe v. Wade, a strong, if imperfect, safeguard of abortion rights. A recent report from the Center for Reproductive Rights found that 22 states would be likely to roll back abortion rights immediately if Roe were overturned. Some of these states already have anti-abortion laws on the books that predate Roe (that means they’re currently unenforceable but would become effective if Roe fell) or laws passed specifically to go into effect in the event that Roe gets axed.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/01/31/what_neil_gorsuch_trump_s_scotus_pick_means_for_american_women.html