Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA<\/p>\n
In terms of her policy positions, The New York Times highlights<\/a> that Overton has written articles calling abortion \u201ccorrosive\u201d to women and calling abortion pills \u201cfar more dangerous to women,\u201d despite extensive data suggesting that abortion pills are extremely safe.<\/p>\n Read more at Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n What to know about Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump’s pick to lead the FDA<\/p>\n When Overton worked at the conservative America First Policy Institute<\/a>, she wrote papers opposing gender-affirming care for minors. She also has questioned the safety of medication abortion and suggested that the FDA was wrong to allow it to be prescribed via telehealth.<\/p>\n Read more at National Public Radio, Inc. <\/a><\/p>\n The Second Trump Admin Has Not Yet Gone All-Out in Attacking Abortion. That May Soon Change.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerica First policies should focus on immediately halting the effort to normalize abortion-on-demand and on broadly recognizing the evidence of the risk posed to women,\u201d she wrote in one policy brief<\/a>, which I first saw flagged by the Guardian<\/a>. \u201cIn the upcoming state legislative sessions and the 118th Congress, policymakers should prioritize providing greater protection for the two lives involved\u2014the mother and the baby\u2014especially with safeguards to protect women and children from the dangers of teleabortion.\u201d In another AFPI statement, she celebrated<\/a> the fall of Roe v. Wade <\/em>in the Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 Dobbs<\/em> decision.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA In terms of her policy positions, The New York Times highlights that Overton has written articles calling abortion \u201ccorrosive\u201d to women and calling abortion pills \u201cfar more dangerous to women,\u201d despite extensive data suggesting that abortion pills are extremely safe. Read more at … 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":[253,297,801,194,147,345,278,72],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion","tag-anti-trans","tag-anti-vaccine","tag-dobbs","tag-fda","tag-medication-abortion","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-telemedicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}