Donnie Burgess
Network Indiana
WASHINGTON — If you’re keeping track of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, you may have heard he wants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
One former Hoosier politician strongly opposes RFK Jr.’s nomination: Trump’s former Vice-President.
Former Vice-President and Indiana governor Mike Pence said in a Friday statement through the Advancing American Freedom Foundation that Kennedy’s career does not align with the pro-life standards set by Republicans and the previous Trump-Pence administration.
“For the majority of his career, RFK Jr. 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. If confirmed, RFK, Jr. would be the most pro-abortion Republican-appointed secretary of HHS in modern history. The pro-life movement has always looked to the Republican party to stand for life, to affirm an unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed,” Pence said in the statement.
President-elect Trump himself has somewhat distanced himself from the abortion issue.
Trump clarified earlier this year that he does not support a federal abortion ban and would support taxpayer-funded in-vitro fertilization treatments.
Vice-President-elect J.D. Vance has also distanced himself from the abortion issue out of frustration, saying in October, “I think the best way is to return it to the voters in the states.”
Trump believes RFK Jr. would be best served to “go after Big Food and Big Pharma.”
