Anti-abortion groups have 2 asks. RFK Jr. is listening.
Abortion opponents — concerned about Kennedy’s past comments supporting abortion access — have two major asks: that he appoint an anti-abortion stalwart to a senior position in HHS and that he promise privately to them and publicly during his confirmation hearing to restore anti-abortion policies from the first Trump administration, according to four anti-abortion advocates granted anonymity to discuss private conversations.
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Anti-Abortion Group Hopes to Convince RFK Jr. Abortion Pills Are Poisoning Our Water
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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