“I’m just sorry that Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t alive to support us,” she said.

“We just weren’t ready to get married at that time,” says Wendie Lubic, who later did marry the man and they have two daughters.īenita Lubic blames Senate Republicans for blocking the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland during the final months of President Barack Obama’s last term, but then fast-tracking the nomination of the newest justice, Amy Coney Barrett, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, less than two months before the election. Wendie Lubic, 60, also had an abortion, in 1986, although she didn’t tell her mother about it until years later. 'As I take on this new role, I strongly believe that this is a moment in which all Americans take great pride.' She. “I’m a senior citizen so I am way past having another child, but I do want to help younger people, particularly those who have been raped and abused, that they will be able to get an abortion,” said Lubic, 86. GROUNDBREAKING TIMES White House On Friday she celebrated the moment, saying. She was allowed a medical abortion in Washington, D.C., but doctors also performed a partial hysterectomy, she believes, to ensure she would have no further pregnancies. In 1968, and with three children already, Benita Lubic’s IUD birth control device failed. Capitol and the Supreme Court, holding a handwritten sign saying, “I don’t regret my abortion.” A widow, Lubic was joined by her daughter Wendie Lubic, sitting in a black canvas camping chair between the U.S.

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