{"id":297141,"date":"2023-08-26T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T18:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=297141"},"modified":"2023-08-25T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:11:14","slug":"new-cdc-director-disappointed-aborted-work-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-cdc-director-disappointed-aborted-work-support\/","title":{"rendered":"New CDC director ‘disappointed’ by protections for preborn children, says she’ll ‘support’ abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The new director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Mandy Cohen, recently spoke with TIME<\/a>, during which she shared her thoughts on abortion in the United States.<\/p>\n

TIME asked Cohen her opinion on a recent Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld a Texas judge’s ruling that kept safety protections in place on mifepristone, the first drug of the two-drug abortion pill regimen. “As a physician, and a public health leader, how does that strike you?” asked the outlet.<\/p>\n

Cohen explained, “Well, I’m so disappointed that we are here, that we are having the conversation to revisit whether or not women should have access to health care when they need it. And, you know, I will say as a mom of two daughters, a physician, and now the director of the CDC, I’m going to continue to make sure that we are working to make sure women have access to care when they need it, and that they have medical treatment when they need it. We will do everything we can to bring the evidence, the data, the best practices we can and support that.”<\/p>\n

She added, “This is obviously an FDA-related issue, but we will support however we can the work that’s being done across the government to support women in their reproductive health.”<\/p>\n

She also called access to abortion one of her “priorities” and “area[s] of focus” and highlighted her belief in the importance of birth control. She wants women to have “access to the tools that can keep them healthy at all moments of their life.”<\/p>\n

But abortion is not one of those “tools” that would accomplish this. In fact, one might wonder \u2014 what “disease” is being controlled or “prevented” by killing a preborn child, and why would the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promote it?<\/p>\n