Judge Neil Gorsuch’s fascination with death could come back to haunt him when his Supreme Court confirmation proceedings begin in the Senate, especially among Democrats who are wary of confirming an anti-abortion justice.

Gorsuch has written at length on issues of death and dying — he wrote a book titled “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia” — and has consistently offered a defense of the inviolability-of-life principle. Senate Democrats looking to obstruct Gorsuch’s confirmation may take issue with his writing on assisted suicide and read between the lines of his work for evidence that he could oppose abortion rights from the bench.