{"id":322191,"date":"2024-11-28T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322191"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:50:29","slug":"trump-nominates-marty-makary-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-nominates-marty-makary-fda\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump FDA nominee Dr. Marty Makary confirmed by Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE, 3\/27\/25<\/strong>: Dr. Marty Makary was confirmed<\/a> to lead the FDA by a Senate vote along party lines on Tuesday, March 25.<\/p>\n

11\/28\/24<\/strong>: President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday evening he has selected Johns Hopkins surgeon, Fox News commentator, and author Dr. Marty Makary as his choice for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner. Makary first began to take more of a national spotlight during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic for vocally opposing lockdowns and vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n

In his role as a physician and Fox News commentator, Makary appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight<\/a> in 2022 to discuss the fact that the preborn child can feel pain while in the womb. He also noted the irony in the fact that physicians willingly kill preborn babies the same age as others who doctors work so hard to save.<\/p>\n

“Somewhere between 15 and 20 weeks, babies will actually resist the instruments of abortion,” Makary explained. “Roe is based on viability, but viability is changing, babies are surviving now at approximately the half-way point of pregnancy. At 21 and 22 weeks, babies have survived outside the womb. So ironically, we sometimes do fetal surgery on the baby inside the womb of the mother to save the baby’s life, and yet at the same age, in other settings, surgical instruments are used to abort a baby… I’ll tell you, it doesn’t matter which side you protest on, if you see the actual images of what is happening and a baby resisting an abortion, it’ll weigh on your conscience.”<\/p>\n