Anti-abortion groups have 2 asks. RFK Jr. is listening.<\/p>\n
Abortion opponents \u2014 concerned about Kennedy\u2019s past comments supporting abortion access \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n Anti-Abortion Group Hopes to Convince RFK Jr. Abortion Pills Are Poisoning Our Water<\/p>\n But Students for Life<\/a> \u2014 a group that has frequently distinguished itself as the least compromising of any in the anti-abortion movement \u2014 had a markedly different reaction: optimism. For one thing, as the group\u2019s president, Kristan Hawkins (herself a veteran of George W. Bush\u2019s HHS), pointed out<\/a> on X, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Read more at Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anti-abortion groups have 2 asks. RFK Jr. is listening. Abortion opponents \u2014 concerned about Kennedy\u2019s past comments supporting abortion access \u2014 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,253,211,216,137,345],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-pills","tag-anti-abortion","tag-anti-abortion-organizations","tag-anti-abortion-policies","tag-gop","tag-medication-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}