Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has become the face of the reproductive rights case that could take down Roe v. Wade.
The 60-year-old mother of three believes the 'march of progress' has left Roe behind because women can now have 'both professional success and a rich family life,' which she argued in an opening brief submitted to the Supreme Court in July.
Fitch, according to a profile from The Lily, drew inspiration from her own life to come up with that legal reasoning, as she raised her three children as a single mother after getting divorced in 2004 - and was elected Mississippi's first female attorney general in 2019.
'You have the option in life to really achieve your dreams and goals,' Fitch said in a TV interview addressing the case. 'And you can have those beautiful children as well.'
But as critics point out, Fitch - a white Republican and staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump - came from a more privileged background than some women who might be seeking an abortion.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (second from right) has become the face of the reproductive rights case that could take down Roe v. Wade. She waves to supporters as she departs the Supreme Court on Wednesday
The 60-year-old mother of three was elected in 2019 and sworn-in on January 14, 2020. Mississippi's Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed the restrictive 15-week abortion law before Lynn Fitch's tenure in March 2018, but she's been comfortable defending it
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch posing with family members during her swearing-in on January 14, 2020. Fitch drew inspiration from her own life to come up with the legal reasoning that could upend Roe v. Wade
Her family was viewed as a success story in her hometown of Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Her late father, Bill, who died this September, owned a string of consumer finance companies.
He also inherited his family farm, called the Galena Plantation, and turned it into a quail-hunting destination.
Part of that effort included buying the cabin home of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and relocating it to the property.
The cabin was where Forrest lived while in Hernando, Mississippi.
It's now been fully restored and sleeps eight to 10 guests.
Among those who previously spent time hunting at Galena Plantation: the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Lynn Fitch's father inherited the family farm, dubbed Galena Plantation, and purchased a cabin where Confederate general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Nathan Bedford Forrest and had it relocated to the property, which is a quail-hunting destination
An interior shot of the cabin that had belonged to Confederate general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Nathan Bedford Forrest, which the Mississippi attorney general's late father had relocated to the family farm and renovated
The Lily spoke to Fitch's first campaign manager Hayes Dent, who ran her successful run for state treasurer in 2011.
Dent told the publication that Fitch's path to political success was very traditional to Mississippi - she went to school at
