Judge Elizabeth Gleicher, a Democrat appointee and Planned Parenthood donor, is the presiding judge in a case brought by the non-profit organization and an abortion provider against the state of Michigan that could keep performing abortions legal.
The case before Gleicher seeks to establish that abortion is a right implied in the state constitution, and therefore a 1931 state law still on the books that made performing an abortion a felony (except to save the life of the mother) is unenforceable.
In 1996, Gleicher, as an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer argued unsuccessfully in a losing case before the Michigan Court of Appeals for abortion as a state constitutional right—the same point of law she is now being called upon to decide as a judge….