Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to several Republican senators this week to reinstate and uphold the pro-life policies enacted by President Donald Trump’s first administration if he is confirmed.
According to Sen. Josh Hawley, Kennedy plans to facilitate the return of popular Trump-era protections like a prohibition on taxpayer-funded abortions at home and abroad and a gag rule requiring institutions that receive Title X funding, like Planned Parenthood, to separate their medical care from their abortion activities. Kennedy also reportedly promised that the conscience protections the Biden administration worked overtime to undo would be restored.
Perhaps the most important commitment Kennedy made to Hawley is that “all of his deputies at HHS would be prolife.” As Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins noted in the pages of The Federalist Read more…
