Sotomayor on Abortion

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor hasn’t ruled on a case involving Roe v. Wade. Here’s the closest she’s come to showing her opinion on the legalization of abortion.

• In 2007, she went against a majority ruling that rejected giving asylum to men from China whose spouses had been pressured to have abortions. She thought the “harm is clearly directed at the couple. … 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."
  
• In 2004, Sotomayor supported letting a case go forward where abortion protesters claimed police used excessive force on them during arrests at a health clinic.
  
• In 2002, she rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's "policy preventing federal funding from going to foreign organizations that perform abortions.