{"id":234520,"date":"2020-11-12T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T23:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=234520"},"modified":"2020-11-16T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:10:43","slug":"biden-chief-staff-naral-soldier-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-chief-staff-naral-soldier-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Presumptive Biden Chief of Staff called himself a ‘soldier’ in NARAL’s pro-abortion ‘army’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joe Biden has\u00a0named<\/a> Ronald Klain\u00a0as presumptive White House Chief of Staff should Biden be certified as the President-elect in coming days, despite potential legal challenges. The move comes just days after Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America,\u00a0tweeted<\/a> her support.\u00a0 Klain recently celebrated abortion at NARAL’s 50th anniversary, tweeting<\/a>, “It was an honor to join @ilyseh & @NARAL to mark #NARAL50 and discuss the need to protect reproductive freedom through the courts and judicial nominations.”<\/p>\n

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Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain celebrates abortion with NARAL (Image: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

In response to a March of 2019 tweet from NARAL’s president, thanking Klain for “being a vocal leader on these issues” of abortion rights, Klain shockingly\u00a0referred<\/a>\u00a0to himself as “[j]ust a soldier in your army @Ilyseh.” In a tweet<\/a> a year prior to this, Klain referred to Hogue as a “great leader.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain a soldier in NARAL army (Image: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NARAL has openly praised<\/a> Planned Parenthood’s white supremacist founder Margaret Sanger, and like Planned Parenthood, was founded by proponents of eugenics. As Live Action News\u00a0previously<\/a>\u00a0reported, two of NARAL\u2019s\u00a0three member<\/a>\u00a0pre-formation planning committee were men who held and promoted radical racist, eugenicist ideas about population control. In addition,\u00a0employees of color within NARAL have publicly accused<\/a> the organization of racism (as have employees of Planned Parenthood<\/a>). Despite this history, Klain called<\/a>\u00a0both NARAL and Planned Parenthood “heroes” on Twitter in 2019:<\/p>\n

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Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain on NARAL and Planned Parenthood (Image: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

Klain previously served in the Obama Administration as a top advisor, and was Chief of Staff for Vice President Biden at that time. In 2014, he was named the administration’s Ebola Czar.<\/p>\n

“Klain will oversee the Executive Office of the President and serve as a senior advisor.\u00a0In addition to supporting the president-elect, Klain will work to build a diverse, experienced and talented team to help President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris meet the urgent challenges facing the country,” notes the press release<\/a> on Klein’s selection.<\/p>\n