Former Vice President Mike Pence urged Republican senators to reject President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because of Kennedy’s abortion views.
Trump, who defeated Vice President Kamala Harris last week in the presidential election, on Thursday selected Kennedy, an environmental activist, to lead the country’s top health agency.
Pence, who served as VP during Trump’s first administration, called on senators to reject Kennedy and approve an HHS secretary “who will respect the sanctity of life.”
“The Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our four years in office. There are hundreds of decisions made at HHS every day that either lead our nation toward a respect for life or away from it, and HHS under our administration always stood for life,” Pence said in a statement released by his conservative nonprofit Advancing American Freedom.
“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 said Kennedy has “defended abortion on demand during all nine months of pregnancy, supports overturning the Dobbs decision and has called for legislation to codify Roe v Wade.”
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