Pro-life groups are skeptical but optimistic about the nomination of pro-choice Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration.
The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has rankled some abortion opponents, who are concerned about his past statements expressing a liberal position on reproductive rights.
The Department of Health and Human Services has a 'major impact on abortion access,' said healthcare attorney Harry Nelson, founder and managing partner at Nelson Hardiman, LLP. The Food and Drug Administration, a sub-agency of HHS, has direct power over the availability of the abortion pill, Mifepristone.
Some pro-lifers are giving Kennedy the benefit of the doubt because they trust Trump's judgment. In his first term, Trump kept his campaign promise to nominate pro-life judges to the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 after nearly a half-century of anti-abortion activism. 'There's no question that we need a pro-life HHS secretary, and of course, we have concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy teamed up with CatholicVote days before Election Day in a TV ad urging Catholics to support Trump that aired in swing state Pennsylvania. Burch told Semafor that the collaboration came months after Kennedy talked about his abortion views with his group and after they agreed 'we need to be spending an equal amount of money on helping women choose to keep their child as we are on helping them to get abortions.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life Action, told Fox News Digital that Kennedy 'was the only presidential candidate who admitted he was wrong about abortion in America and changed his mind.' 'Whoever ends up at HHS, we are going to want to talk with them about how HHS has been weaponized with prejudice against pro-life Americans, including pro-life hospitals, and for more abortion,' Hawkins said. Still, others remain skeptical.
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