Biden says California AG who tried to force pro-life centers to promote abortion would be his HHS chief By Calvin Freiburger for Life Site News
Democrat Attorney General Xavier Becerra went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to force pro-life pregnancy centers to promote abortion. He ultimately lost.
In the latest indication of a possible Biden administration’s hard-left direction, former Vice President Joe Biden has tapped California’s extremely pro-abortion Democrat Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as his Secretary of Health and Human Services, should he take control of the White House.
Via his buildbackbetter.gov “transition” website, Biden announced Becerra’s selection amid a group of health policy picks “that looks like America and brings together leaders with deep experience in public health, government, and crisis management,” which will ostensibly devote a “laser-focus on bringing COVID-19 under control” and “help fulfill the President-elect’s vision of making health care a right — not a privilege — for all Americans.”
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“The Department of Health and Human Services should not be run by a radical activist who puts his friends in the abortion lobby first, over the needs of women,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America (SFLA). The Susan B. Anthony List’s Marjorie Dannenfelser noted that when he was a congressman, Becerra “even voted in favor of partial-birth abortion.”
Biden’s plan for tackling the virus did not differ significantly from actions taken by the Trump administration, with the biggest exception being Biden’s emphasis on urging Americans to wear masks and urging governors to force them to do so. Becerra’s selection does, however, indicate that Biden’s federal health apparatus would take a hardline stance for abortion and against religious and conscience rights.
As attorney general of the Golden State, Becerra was responsible for enforcing draconian restrictions on religious assembly in the name of containing COVID-19, and has joined other Democrat officials across the country in using the pandemic as a justification to demand abortion pills be approved for unsupervised home use.
