Pence calls on Senate to reject RFK Jr. nomination over abortion views

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

11/15/24 11:57 AM


Former Vice President Mike Pence is urging GOP senators to reject President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because of his views on abortion.

In a statement from his conservative nonprofit Advancing American Freedom on Friday, Pence said Kennedy’s nomination “is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning to millions of Pro-Life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and our nominees for decades.”

Kennedy has been inconsistent on his abortion position. When he launched his presidential campaign as a Democrat, Kennedy endorsed a ban on abortion after the first trimester but then quickly backtracked. He also suggested he opposed banning abortion before fetal viability, generally around 24 weeks into a pregnancy.

On his campaign website, Kennedy says he is “a firm supporter of the principles laid out 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade” and that “if the courts do not overturn Dobbs v. Jackson and restore abortion rights, he will support legislation to accomplish the same.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4992803-pence-urges-rejection-kennedy-nomination/

[wryter2000]

1. LOL

The "pro-lifers" are going to reject him.

I'm sure A-hole can find another anti-vax type to take over. I wonder if Vance and his family are vaccinated.

[BrianTheEVGuy]

2. Absolutely delicious

I will ROFL uncontrollably if RFK gets bounced out for not being MAGA enough

[Ray Bruns]

3. Mike who? I think he brought me coffee once.

[FakeNoose]

4. As if ... anyone in Chump's group cares about anything Mike Pence has to say

Chump will go ahead with Bob, he'll get approved. Then Chump will fire him in 6 months or less.

[milestogo]

5. We're going to die from preventable infectious diseases.

[Akakoji]

6. Slowly

Accompanied by years of morbidity.

[FredGarvin]

7. Pence is irrevalent

Kennedy is too

[elleng]

8. LOVE IT!!!!!

[John Shaft]

9. Dear Mike Pence: GO FUCK YOURSELF

[mathematic]

10. I was joking yesterday that if dems wanted to stop the RFK nod they should ask him about abortion

RFK jr is not a de-regulator. He's a conspiracy-brained alt-regulator. He was a radical environmentalist lawyer. I've been waiting for republicans to actually wake up and say something about this. Looks like one finally has.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. What is the best answer about abortion? The answer that will get him voted in?

Like the last three Extreme Court picks, he can say what senators (including Susan Collins) want to hear, then forget all about it when in office.

[mathematic]

12. Uh, you've got it backwards. If he told the truth he would lose GOP support.

He supports abortion. The joke is that if Dems asked him about all the lefty things he's supported throughout his career and he told the truth it would make him toxic to the GOP.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. So he answers that he will ban abortion completely.

Then, when in office, do whatever. Anyone objects, blame it on the brain-worm.

[OverBurn]

14. So it's just about abortion, not that he's batshit crazy, OK.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. K&R