Trump's judge candidate wriggled in the abortion issue

Amy Coney Barrett is a devout Catholic who, according to The Guardian, has been a member of an anti-abortion organization.

She must also, according to the British newspaper, in 2006 have signed an open letter in a newspaper demanding that the American law on free abortion be re-evaluated.

Abortion is a controversial topic in the United States.

In 1973, the country's supreme court ruled in favor of the ruling

which ruled that free abortion should be included in the constitutionally protected right to privacy.

Since then, abortion opponents and some conservative politicians have sought to overturn the ruling, and in several states, abortion rights have been curtailed.

When Coney Barrett was questioned by the Senate Legal Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Democrat Dianne Feinstein asked if she thought Roe v. Wade had been decided correctly, then Coney Barrett did not want to answer, according to CBC.

Feinstein called her reluctance to answer the question "disruptive."

"I will follow the law"

The judge candidate emphasized, however, that she will not let her personal beliefs influence her in any decision:

- I will follow the law.

I promise I will do it in any case that comes up, abortion or whatever.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham asked Amy Coney Barrett if she would be able to put her faith aside in future decision-making.

"I can," she replied then.

During the hearing, Coney Barrett also called the late Republican HD judge Antonin Scalia, for whom Barrett has been an assistant, his "mentor".

Scalia was against the decision to legalize same-sex marriage - and when Barrett was asked if she agreed with Scalia on that question, she did not want to answer.

- I have no agenda and I want to clarify that I have never discriminated against anyone because of sexual orientation and will not do so.