Former Vice President Mike Pence called on Senate Republicans on Friday to oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), citing Kennedy’s stance on abortion.
In a statement released by his nonprofit organization, Advancing American Freedom, Pence emphasized that during the Trump-Pence administration, the White House was firmly pro-life. “The Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our four years in office. The decisions made at HHS every day either advanced a culture of life or undermined it, and under our leadership, HHS consistently stood for life,” Pence said.
He went on to express concern that Kennedy’s nomination marked a sharp break from the administration’s pro-life principles, warning that it should alarm millions of pro-life Americans who have long supported the Republican Party. “I believe the nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning to millions of pro-life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and our nominees for decades,” Pence added.
Pence also criticized Kennedy’s past advocacy for abortion rights, pointing to his longstanding support for abortion access at any stage of pregnancy and his calls to overturn the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade. “For the majority of his career, Kennedy has defended abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy, supports overturning the Dobbs decision, and has called for legislation to codify
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