Former Vice President Mike Pence is now reportedly advocating for Republican senators to decline President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) due to his stance on abortion policies.
Pence claimed Kennedy’s nomination “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.”
He also expressed that this departure should be of great concern to millions of Pro-Life Americans.
Kennedy’s stance on abortion has been inconsistent.
Kennedy initially advocated for a prohibition on abortion after the first trimester when he initiated his presidential campaign as a Democrat; however, he rapidly reversed course.
Additionally, he expressed his opposition to the prohibition of abortion prior to embryonic viability, which typically occurs at approximately 24 weeks of gestation.
Trump himself declared that he does not endorse a federal abortion prohibition and conducted his campaign in a manner that distanced him from the anti-abortion faction of the Republican party.
Pence, a fervent religious conservative, has occasionally criticized his former boss’s policy positions, particularly Trump’s assertion that abortion should be left to the states.
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