{"id":321738,"date":"2024-11-16T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T14:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=321738"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:18:09","slug":"trump-nominates-pro-abortion-rfk-jr-hhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-nominates-pro-abortion-rfk-jr-hhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. confirmed by senate as new head of HHS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE, 2\/13\/2025:<\/strong> Despite bipartisan concerns, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was confirmed<\/a> as secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS) department. In a narrow 52-48 vote, Kennedy nomination was confirmed, and he is expected to be sworn in this afternoon. <\/p>\n

11\/16\/2024:<\/strong> Donald Trump, who was recently re-elected<\/a> to serve as the 47th president of the United States, has been announcing his choices for his cabinet. While conservatives have applauded many of the nominees, one person is drawing criticism from the pro-life movement. Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), Jr. also ran for president, albeit as an independent until he dropped out to throw his support behind Trump. Now, he has been nominated by Trump to be the secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS) department… despite being openly pro-abortion.<\/p>\n

Trump announced<\/a> the pick earlier this week, a confirmation of earlier remarks that RFK would have a place in his administration. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” he said in a statement<\/a> released on Truth Social. “The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”<\/p>\n

READ: RFK Jr walks back support for \u2018full-term abortion\u2019 while Biden camp portrays president as moderate<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kennedy had previously expressed what his goals as head of HHS would be in an interview with NPR<\/a>. “President Trump has given me three instructions,” he said. “He wants the corruption and the conflicts out of the regulatory agencies. He wants to return the agencies to the gold standard empirically based, evidence-based science and medicine that they were once famous for. And he wants to end the chronic disease epidemic with measurable impacts on a diminishment of chronic disease within two years.”<\/p>\n

Those may be laudable goals, but it is inescapable that Kennedy is also ardently pro-abortion \u2014 and, apparently, also pro-government healthcare, which is a seemingly odd position for someone who appears to believe government should not make people’s healthcare decisions.<\/p>\n

In numerous interviews<\/a>, Kennedy has stated that he supports abortion without any restrictions, often framing it as an issue of keeping the government out of personal decisions and bodily autonomy. Though he calls himself “personally pro-life,” he explained, “I don\u2019t trust government to have jurisdiction over people\u2019s bodies. I think we need to leave it to the woman, her pastor and to, you know, her spiritual advisors or physician, whatever, to make those decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n