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Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden is fulfilling predictions that his administration will be the most militantly pro-abortion of any in American history. His nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for Secretary of Health and Human Services is an expression of Biden’s commitment to force extreme, oppressive abortion policy on the American public. As California AG, Becerra has been a tool of the abortion industry. Biden has rewarded the pro-choice lobby’s support of his candidacy by appointing Planned Parenthood’s unofficial spokesman and advocate. The Becerra pick has nothing to do with health care policy in the United States, and everything to do with enforcing a radical abortion agenda.
With a BA in economics and a law degree from Stanford University, Becerra has no credentials or expertise in medicine, public health, or any other discipline related to health care services. A career politician in California state and federal government, his sole “qualification” for the head of the federal bureaucracy charged with national health care policy is his aggressive pro-abortion activism. And Becerra’s nomination as head of HHS demonstrates that unfettered access to publicly funded abortion will be at the center of a Biden Administration's public “health” policy agenda. This will be Becerra’s beat, and if confirmed, he will be ruthless in executing it.
During his twenty-four years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Becerra consistently received perfect scores from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. During his tenure, no member of Congress exceeded his enthusiasm for abortion for any or no reason up to, and even during, the birth of a child. It is not surprising that Planned Parenthood giddily endorsed the choice, calling Becerra a “decades-long champion” of “sexual and reproductive health care access.” Planned Parenthood praised Becerra for “fighting to address health care inequities and further critical access care” (read: publicly funded abortion on demand and without exceptions).
Becerra is not content with simply protecting access to abortion. Judging by his tenure as California AG, as Secretary of HHS he is certain to insist that dissenters be punished and objectors prosecuted. When he succeeded Kamala Harris as California attorney general in 2017, Becerra energetically adopted Harris’s pro-abortion policies and activities. For example, he continued criminal prosecution of citizen journalist David Daleiden for his routine 60-Minutes-style investigative reporting—solely because it exposed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in human body parts.
Becerra also represented California in litigation over the state’s unsuccessful defense of the “Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act.” The FACT Act would have required pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to post notices advertising abortion clinics and provide informational brochures to clients about free contraception and abortion services nearby. The FACT Act made California a marketing and advertising agency for Planned Parenthood and other abortion mills, and would have forced pro-life pregnancy centers to be complicit in its campaign. The Act was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018, but it demonstrates the extent of Becerra’s loyalty to the abortion industry. More important, it illustrates his commitment to forcing extreme abortion ideology on everyone, including those with good-faith objections to abortion. The FACT Act was not about protecting abortion access; it was about imposing a moral and political agenda. No compromise, no discussion, no exceptions.
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Why Biden Picked Xavier Becerra | Kenneth Craycraft
Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden is fulfilling predictions that his administration will be the most militantly pro-abortion of any in American history. His nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for Secretary of Health and Human Services is an expression of Biden’s commitment to force extreme, oppressive abortion policy on the American public. As California AG, Becerra has been a tool of the abortion industry. Biden has rewarded the pro-choice lobby’s support of his candidacy by appointing Planned Parenthood’s unofficial spokesman and advocate. The Becerra pick has nothing to do with health care policy in the United States, and everything to do with enforcing a radical abortion agenda.
With a BA in economics and a law degree from Stanford University, Becerra has no credentials or expertise in medicine, public health, or any other discipline related to health care services. A career politician in California state and federal government, his sole “qualification” for the head of the federal bureaucracy charged with national health care policy is his aggressive pro-abortion activism. And Becerra’s nomination as head of HHS demonstrates that unfettered access to publicly funded abortion will be at the center of a Biden Administration's public “health” policy agenda. This will be Becerra’s beat, and if confirmed, he will be ruthless in executing it.
During his twenty-four years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Becerra consistently received perfect scores from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. During his tenure, no member of Congress exceeded his enthusiasm for abortion for any or no reason up to, and even during, the birth of a child. It is not surprising that Planned Parenthood giddily endorsed the choice, calling Becerra a “decades-long champion” of “sexual and reproductive health care access.” Planned Parenthood praised Becerra for “fighting to address health care inequities and further critical access care” (read: publicly funded abortion on demand and without exceptions).
Becerra is not content with simply protecting access to abortion. Judging by his tenure as California AG, as Secretary of HHS he is certain to insist that dissenters be punished and objectors prosecuted. When he succeeded Kamala Harris as California attorney general in 2017, Becerra energetically adopted Harris’s pro-abortion policies and activities. For example, he continued criminal prosecution of citizen journalist David Daleiden for his routine 60-Minutes-style investigative reporting—solely because it exposed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in human body parts.
Becerra also represented California in litigation over the state’s unsuccessful defense of the “Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act.” The FACT Act would have required pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to post notices advertising abortion clinics and provide informational brochures to clients about free contraception and abortion services nearby. The FACT Act made California a marketing and advertising agency for Planned Parenthood and other abortion mills, and would have forced pro-life pregnancy centers to be complicit in its campaign. The Act was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018, but it demonstrates the extent of Becerra’s loyalty to the abortion industry. More important, it illustrates his commitment to forcing extreme abortion ideology on everyone, including those with good-faith objections to abortion. The FACT Act was not about protecting abortion access; it was about imposing a moral and political agenda. No compromise, no discussion, no exceptions.
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Why Biden Picked Xavier Becerra | Kenneth Craycraft
