Pence urges Senate Republicans to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS nomination over assist for abortion

Former Vice President Mike Pence known as on Senate Republicans on Friday to oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS), citing Kennedy’s stance on abortion.

In a press release launched by his nonprofit group, Advancing American Freedom, Pence emphasised that in the course of the Trump-Pence administration, the White Home was firmly pro-life. “The Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our 4 years in workplace. The choices made at HHS each day both superior a tradition of life or undermined it, and underneath our management, HHS constantly stood for all times,” Pence stated.

He went on to specific concern that Kennedy’s nomination marked a pointy break from the administration’s pro-life rules, warning that it ought to alarm thousands and thousands of pro-life People who’ve lengthy supported the Republican Get together. “I imagine the nomination of RFK Jr. to function Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life report of our administration and needs to be deeply regarding to thousands and thousands of pro-life People who’ve supported the Republican Get together and our nominees for many years,” Pence added.

Pence additionally criticized Kennedy’s previous advocacy for abortion rights, pointing to his longstanding assist for abortion entry at any stage of being pregnant and his calls to overturn the Supreme Court docket’s Dobbs determination, which overturned Roe v. Wade. “For almost all of his profession, Kennedy has defended abortion on demand all through all 9 months of being pregnant, helps overturning the Dobbs determination, and has known as for laws to codify Roe v. Wade,” Pence acknowledged. “If confirmed, he could be essentially the most pro-abortion Republican appointed as secretary of HHS in trendy historical past.”

He burdened that the Republican Get together has lengthy been the occasion of life and that the pro-life motion expects its leaders to guard the rights of the unborn. “The professional-life motion has at all times regarded to the Republican Get together to face for all times and affirm that an unborn little one has a basic proper to life that can not be infringed,” Pence stated.

Pence, talking on behalf of “tens of thousands and thousands of pro-life People,” urged Senate Republicans to reject Kennedy’s nomination and as a substitute affirm a pacesetter who would uphold the sanctity of life on the Division of Well being and Human Providers.

Kennedy has confronted scrutiny for his shifting place on abortion. In Could, he acknowledged he would permit abortions up till full-term, although he later clarified his stance, saying he supported abortion solely as much as the purpose of fetal viability.

Different Christian conservatives have additionally voiced issues about Kennedy’s nomination. Daniel Darling, director of the Land Middle for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and former chief within the Southern Baptist Conference’s public coverage arm, described the nomination as a “large blow” to social conservatives. “If true, an enormous blow to social conservatives,” Darling wrote in a put up on X (previously Twitter).

Kennedy’s nomination is anticipated to be a contentious situation within the Senate, as Republicans proceed to grapple with the function of abortion of their occasion’s platform.

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