Biden health chief refuses to say whether partial-birth abortion is illegal By Calvin Freiburger for Life Site News
Xavier Becerra, previously the Attorney General of California, repeatedly evaded giving a straight yes-or-no answer to the question.
Biden administration Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra repeatedly refused to answer whether partial-birth abortion is illegal during a congressional hearing Thursday, raising fresh doubts about the Biden administration’s willingness to enforce federal law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court more than a decade ago.
Becerra, previously the Attorney General of California, repeatedly evaded giving a straight yes-or-no answer to the question in response to grilling by Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana:
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The law is the law—partial birth abortions ARE illegal.
So, why won't @JoeBiden's Secretary of HHS acknowledge the law? It's not hard. pic.twitter.com/rVJiP8rom1
— Steve Daines (@SteveDaines) June 10, 2021
“Is it illegal?” Daines asked. Becerra began to instead assert a woman’s “right” to pre-viability abortions under Roe v. Wade, but was cut off by Daines, who restated the question. During a minute-long exchange, Becerra would say only that it was a “technical question,” and that “a woman has the right to receive an abortion.”
In fact, former President George W. Bush signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act into law in 2003, and the Supreme Court upheld it in 2007 with Gonzales v. Carhart. President Joe Biden, then a Senator representing Delaware, was among the Democrats who voted in favor of the ban.
In the years since, however, Biden has jettisoned all of his former more moderate views on abortion in favor of an absolutist “pro-choice” agenda that includes forcing all 50 states to allow effectively-unlimited abortion at taxpayer expense. Biden abandoned the last vestige of his pro-life past during the 2020 Democrat presidential primary, when he dropped his support for the Hyde amendment (which bars direct federal funding of most abortions) after just a day of pressure from left-wing activists.
