In a matter of days, President-Elect Trump will be sworn in with Republican control of Congress and a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
Reform and budget reductions are the refreshing promises in D.C. and there appear to be big changes in the future for agencies that regulate abortion in America.
Trump, who nominated three of the Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, has said that he will be a “protector” of women. His platform states he proudly stands “for families and Life” and that states are “free to pass laws protecting” those same rights.
Soon-to-be Vice-President J.D. Vance shared during the vice-presidential national debate, “I think that what I take from that as a Republican who proudly wants to protect innocent life in this country, who proudly wants to protect the vulnerable, is that my party, we’ve got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people’s trust back on this issue where they, frankly, just don’t trust us. That’s one of the things that Donald Trump and I are endeavoring to do.”
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RFK Jr. to lead the charge at HHS
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been picked by President-elect Trump to become secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Kennedy has made a hard promise to rid these agencies of corruption.
However, Kennedy has struggled to find his position regarding the value of life and has had an evolving position on abortion. Recently his position grew to include protection for babies in later gestational ages after researching late-term abortions and contemplating the government's role in protecting these babies.
While holding strong to his concerns about government overreach and patients’ rights to medical autonomy, he now feels differently regarding late abortions and is speaking out about protections owed to these preborn children.
“At that time, you have a wholly formed, viable child and the state has some interest in protecting that baby," Kennedy told Fox News in May 2024. “It’s basically killing a child.”
Kennedy has also said “every abortion is a tragedy” and called for a national ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
In numerous meetings on Capitol Hill, Kennedy has confirmed Trump plans to restore many pro-life policies that have been removed from American policy.
S.C. Senator Lindsey Graham posts about his meeting with Kennedy and the expectation to continue pro-life traditions of the Republican party.
Trump’s Health Secretary will influence the growing abortion access in America, including through access to abortion pills. If approved, the agencies Kennedy would oversee include two that have strong abortion influences:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC's mission is to protect public health, alerting Americans about disease and working to prevent them from spreading illnesses. The CDC oversees10 centers including the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and the Global Health Centers. - The Food and Drug Administration
The FDA reviews the safety and efficacy of medical devices, medicines, and biologics. In late October, Kennedy wrote on X: "If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags."
The Department of Government Efficiency reveals plan to cut Planned Parenthood Funding
In addition, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who were chosen by Trump to head up the Department of Government Efficiency, have provided insight to their plans for an overdue cut to Planned Parenthood funding. This abortion organization reports nearly $2.1 billion in income and over $2.5 billion in net assets, receiving $50 million each year from the federal government.
But this will soon change as DOGE works to cut “nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood remains the largest single provider of abortions in the U.S. and has recently made strides to increase its “gender-affirming” hormone therapy and telemed abortion. Planned Parenthood’s funding is used for research to promote abortion and to “break down barriers to increase access to sexual and reproductive health care services,” to open court cases challenging limits on abortion, and for political advocacy to fund political candidates who support the abortion agenda.
Spending $40 million of tax-payer funding ahead of last November’s elections, Planned Parenthood worked to bolster Biden and subsequently Harris in their runs for the presidency. The abortion giant also provided significant support for congressional Democrats in efforts to avoid any abortion limitations.
Many conservatives have given high praise for these proposed funding cuts to the nation’s largest abortion business. Charlie Kirk, an American political activist, author and media personality, championed the idea, sharing on X, “We must defund Planned Parenthood… Make them raise their own money. We shouldn't subsidize them!”
The FDA as the primary regulator of abortion in America
As American abortion has shifted to predominantly chemical rather than surgical, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now the primary regulator of abortion in the U.S. The FDA’s failure to protect the health of American women and children is a monumental failure of mission and has resulted in countless deaths as well as physical, emotional, and spiritual harm.
With two-thirds of all abortions now induced with drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, the FDA has come under fire for loosening safety measures applied during its approval process for mifepristone.
The FDA and approval of abortion drugs in America
In his first act as president, Bill Clinton ordered HHS and the FDA to coordinate and promote the marketing of abortion drug RU-486. In 1993, the FDA complied after Clinton signed an executive order that directed the agency to expedite approval of mifepristone.
According to a Judicial Report, requirements for certifying a drug as “safe and effective” were circumvented in an effort to rush RU-486 to market. Despite concerns regarding dangers to the American public, the FDA approved the abortion pill with one caveat - a REMS (Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy) was placed on mifepristone, a precaution the FDA places only on drugs with “serious safety concerns.”
The abortion pill manufacturer Hua Lian and distributor Danco Laboratory were disappointed in early studies that revealed sub-optimal outcomes. To obtain FDA approval, a second drug, called misoprostol, was added to the abortion cocktail to increase effectiveness. However, misoprostol has yet to be approved for use in abortion and maintains a black box warning for use in pregnancy due to risk of uterine tear or rupture.
The FDA funded in part by the companies it regulates
In an obvious conflict of interest, half of the FDA’s budget now comes from user fees provided by companies seeking approval for the drugs they’ve created. In 2024, $3.3 billion, almost 46% of the agency's $7.2 billion budget, came from so-called "user fees," or payments made by pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers.
The FDA defends these “user fees” by stating this funding is used to supplement the annual funding that Congress provides and warns that eliminating them would upend the FDA budget.
However, Kennedy has proposed eliminating these user fees which currently support a substantial portion of the FDA budget. Changes Kennedy wants to make will come up against a pharmaceutical industry that provides substantial funding to the FDA.
FDA reform and abortion-Who will lead these changes?
John Hopkins surgeon, public policy researcher, prolife author, and long-time FDA critic Marty Makary is Trump’s choice for Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
He is a long-time critic of the American health care system and hopes to transform it with a complete “redesign” with new transparency. He is a critic of most medical organizations due to their advocacy for abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
Makary has been outspoken regarding babies feeling pain in-utero and the ever-changing range of viability which often guides abortion laws. He has been vocal about the hypocrisy in medicine as fetal surgeries performed to save a child and abortions occur at the same gestational age.
Speaking of Makary’s nomination, Trump said, “I am confident that Dr. Makary, having dedicated his career to High-Quality, Lower-Cost Care, will restore FDA to the Gold Standard of Scientific Research, and cut the bureaucratic red tape at the Agency to make sure Americans get the Medical Cures and Treatments they deserve.”
Rukmini Timmaraju of Reproductive Freedom for All, referred to Makary as “a known anti-abortion extremist” in a statement and argued he “could weaponize the FDA to effectively ban medication abortion.”
The CDC creating American’s abortion data from very limited reporting
For more than 50 years, the CDC has claimed to have collected abortion data in America. However, these incomplete statistics depend completely on voluntary reporting by abortion providers. Because there is no national requirement for data submission or reporting, the American public instead must rely on estimations of how many abortions are actually happening and what adverse events follow these unknown number of abortions.
This limited reporting misrepresents the abortion pill as “safe and effective” as reported commonly by legacy media, which often compares dangerous abortion drugs to Viagra and Penicillin. Yet studies in countries with more inclusive reporting give a much bleaker view for women who have had abortions. And those who have truly studied the adverse events reported to the FDA give a horrific view of what abortion actually is today.
Regarding the CDC Trump has noted, "Americans have lost trust in the CDC and in our Federal Health Authorities, who have engaged in censorship, data manipulation, and misinformation. Given the current Chronic Health Crisis in our Country, the CDC must step up and correct past errors to focus on the Prevention of Disease."
CDC reform and abortion-who will lead this charge?
Dr. Dave Weldon is Trump's pick to lead the CDC. A physician, an Army veteran, and a Representative in the House from 1995 to 2009, Weldon has been a long-proponent for health providers and organizations to refuse to provide contraception, emergency contraception, sterilization, and abortion as well as "conscience" or "refusal" clauses permitting them to refuse to participate in abortion.
In a statement after voting in favor of a ban on late abortions, Weldon said, “This is not a religious issue, it is a human issue.” He despaired about the loss of life since abortion was legalized in the U.S., saying, “The value of human life has been debased in our civilization to the point where animals have protective rights where humans do not. We are knee-deep in a culture of death.”
Making American Healthy Again for all Americans
Will making “American healthy again” include America’s preborn citizens? It’s still early to know which of Trump’s picks will stand up for women and children and who will give way under the pressure to conform to Big Abortion. However, with these appointments, there is hope for our families, communities and our nation that the chemical warfare could soon end against the most defenseless and innocent in our nation.
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