A traditional team established by previous Vice President Mike Pence is advising Republican legislators to turn down the election of Robert F.Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services over his previous assistance for abortion.
While public health officials have actually come out versus Kennedy over his spreading of dangerous conspiracy theories and his anti-vaccine position, traditional campaigning for team Advancing American Freedom shows up even more worried with Kennedy’s previous remarks on behalf of abortion accessibility.
“While RFK Jr. has made certain overtures to pro-life leaders … there is little reason for confidence at this time,” AAF President Tim Chapman and Chairman Marc Short created in a statement Wednesday. “There are hundreds of decisions made every day at HHS that either lead our nation toward a respect for life or away from it—decisions about federal funding for Planned Parenthood, regulations on the abortion pill (currently accounting for three out of every five abortions), insurance coverage of abortion, and more.”
Kennedy has repeatedly flip-flopped on the issue. In June, he stated abortion “should be unrestricted up until a certain point.”
“Even in the reddest of red states, voters reject total abortion bans,” Kennedy said in a video to his advocates. “And in blue states, almost no one supports third-trimester abortions except to save the life of the mother. And so I support the emerging consensus that abortion should be unrestricted up until a certain point.”
Pence, a Trump doubter considering that completion of the very first Trump management, first urged lawmakers to reject Kennedy’s election in November adhering to President- choose Donald Trump’s governmental win.
“I believe the nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning to millions of Pro-Life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and our nominees for decades,” Pence stated in a declaration at the time.
