Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for President Donald Trump's Health and Welfare (HHS) secretary, supports Trump's life maintenance policy on Wednesday confirmation and researches the safety of drugs during pregnancy. He said.
During the hearing, Senator James Rankford (R-OK) asked Kennedy how to handle the title X family planning regulations under Trump. During Trump's first term, his administration issued a rule that the taxpayers' funding provided in the X Family Planning Program could not be used to support abortion. Former President Joe Biden immediately overturned the rules Towed Rankford's Oklahoma He refused to promote abortions while receiving the federal fund.
“… The Biden administration has reduced funds to Oklahoma for other fields of AIDS test, screening breast cancer, and poor medical care,” said Rankford. Ta. “My simple question to you is to treat the title X about it? I saw how President Biden had processed it with a punishment that came to my state … “
“I intend to support President Trump's policy on the title X. I agree that Trump is tragedy for all pregnancy abortion. If there are 1.2 million abortions, we are moral. I agree that I can't be a nation, “Kennedy replied. “I agree that the state should manage abortions. President Trump wants to end the late abortion and wants to protect conscious exemption. He says he wants to end the federal fund for abortion. is.”
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Rankford further asked Kennedy about his approach to Mypepriston. This is the first tablet used for two medications abortion regimens. Specifically, how is Rankford at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? Necessary suspension All complications related to drugs during pregnancy in 2016 excluding death. He may also allow FDA under Biden to prescribe abortions on telehels and send it by mail, and may potentially have unchanged ectopic pregnancy and other complications. I pointed out that. I'm in danger。
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Rankford asked:
My question to you is that FDA actually gives Americans transparency and moves to say. [mifepristone] Is there a difference from other medicines? [That] I don't intend to protect it because of that. [abortion] Is it political for some people? People should know the side effects of this drug and need to report.
“The fact that patients and doctors should not report adverse events are opposed to everything we believe in this country,” Kennedy replied. “We need to know what the adverse events are. We need to understand the safety of all drugs, that is, the mypepriston and all the other medicines. Trump is this. He revealed to me that he was one of the things he had not yet been in his job, but he wanted me to see the safety issues. “
Kennedy also supported the conscience of healthcare professionals opposing or promoting abortions.
“”[F]It doesn't make sense to open someone to participate in a medical treatment as a provider who thinks a murder, “he said. “We need to welcome the diversity of this country. We need to respect diversity, we have different opinions, and we do not forced our opinions to others, we are each other. I need to respect. ”
Catherine Hamilton is a political reporter in Bright Bart News. You can follow her with X @thekat_hamilton。
