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Anti-Abortion Group Hopes to Convince RFK Jr. Abortion Pills Are Poisoning Our Water
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-abortion-group-hopes-convince-140000977.htmlMost figures at the forefront of America’s anti-abortion movement were less than enthusiastic when Donald Trump announced last week he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — the agency that governs federal policy related to reproductive health.
RFK Jr.’s position on abortion shifted over the course of his campaign: In May, he defended the viability standard that was the basis of Roe v. Wade, before declaring his support for a federal 15-week abortion ban and then walking that declaration back in August.
Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, urged the Senate to reject Kennedy’s candidacy, calling him “the most pro-abortion” nominee for the position put forth by a Republican president “in modern history.” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, the most powerful anti-abortion organization in the country, was only slightly more circumspect. “There’s no question that we need a pro-life HHS secretary, and of course, we have concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” Dannenfelser said in a statement.
But Students for Life — a group that has frequently distinguished itself as the least compromising of any in the anti-abortion movement — had a markedly different reaction: optimism. For one thing, as the group’s president, Kristan Hawkins (herself a veteran of George W. Bush’s HHS), pointed out on X, it’s often the lower-level appointees, the heads of various HHS sub-offices, who are most integral in shaping actual policy. But, more importantly, the leaders of the group believe they might find common ground with Kennedy on one of their pet causes: advancing the dubious idea that abortion pills are polluting the U.S. water supply.
RFK Jr.’s position on abortion shifted over the course of his campaign: In May, he defended the viability standard that was the basis of Roe v. Wade, before declaring his support for a federal 15-week abortion ban and then walking that declaration back in August.
Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, urged the Senate to reject Kennedy’s candidacy, calling him “the most pro-abortion” nominee for the position put forth by a Republican president “in modern history.” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, the most powerful anti-abortion organization in the country, was only slightly more circumspect. “There’s no question that we need a pro-life HHS secretary, and of course, we have concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” Dannenfelser said in a statement.
But Students for Life — a group that has frequently distinguished itself as the least compromising of any in the anti-abortion movement — had a markedly different reaction: optimism. For one thing, as the group’s president, Kristan Hawkins (herself a veteran of George W. Bush’s HHS), pointed out on X, it’s often the lower-level appointees, the heads of various HHS sub-offices, who are most integral in shaping actual policy. But, more importantly, the leaders of the group believe they might find common ground with Kennedy on one of their pet causes: advancing the dubious idea that abortion pills are polluting the U.S. water supply.
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