Sen. Cruz Notes Becerra's 'Only' Experience with Health Care
Source: Al Drago/Pool via AP
There's plenty to complain about regarding President Biden's HHS secretary nominee, Xavier Becerra. He has a poor record on the right to life, and he has supported some radical health care policies.
Asked to analyze the nomination on Fox News, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) targeted Becerra's lack of experience and made an effective analogy in the process.
"He's not a doctor, he has no scientific background, and he has no background in virology, he never worked in a pharmaceutical company," Cruz said of the HHS nominee. "He's got nothing to do with health care!"
"He's a trial lawyer," Cruz continued. "And his only experience, and his only experience, as far as I can tell, with health care is he sued the Little Sisters of the Poor."
In the middle of a pandemic, Joe Biden nominated Xavier Becerra to HHS.
Becerra has no background in virology, he never worked at a pharmaceutical company, and his only health care experience is that he sued the Little Sisters of the Poor. pic.twitter.com/L2GY9ydjvm
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 23, 2021
"If a Republican nominated a trial lawyer to lead the Health and Human Services Department in the midst of a global pandemic, they'd be laughed out of the room."
Pro-life groups have blasted out warnings about Becerra these past few weeks.
“During his time in public office, Xavier Becerra has displayed a vindictiveness towards those who protect the unborn as well as a disregard for actual healthcare," said March for Life president Jeanne Mancini. "He has a record of using his position to aggressively attack pro-life institutions and individuals, and clearly has no qualms about wielding his political power to promote taxpayer-funded abortions on demand up until birth - something with which the majority of Americans disagree. Confirming this nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services will only further divide America. Americans deserve a well-qualified professional with real medical experience at the helm of HHS, not a puppet for big abortion.”
National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, a non-profit that once sued Becerra after the California Department of Health tried to regulate pro-life pregnancy centers.
“The nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is a disgraceful attack on the pro-life values of millions of Americans," NIFLA Vice President of Legal Affairs Anne O’Connor said in a statement. "Becerra’s extensive track record of targeting pro-life centers and medical clinics – along with anyone that disagrees with his pro-abortion dogma – is evident for all to see. His appointment to HHS imperils pro-life pregnancy centers. These dedicated nonprofits provide more than $266,764,916 in free services annually to mothers, fathers, babies, and families nationwide. Failure to reject this nomination is a continuation of Becerra’s unconstitutional attacks on pregnancy centers in California and before the Supreme Court in NIFLA v. Becerra.”
Source: Al Drago/Pool via AP
There's plenty to complain about regarding President Biden's HHS secretary nominee, Xavier Becerra. He has a poor record on the right to life, and he has supported some radical health care policies.
Asked to analyze the nomination on Fox News, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) targeted Becerra's lack of experience and made an effective analogy in the process.
"He's not a doctor, he has no scientific background, and he has no background in virology, he never worked in a pharmaceutical company," Cruz said of the HHS nominee. "He's got nothing to do with health care!"
"He's a trial lawyer," Cruz continued. "And his only experience, and his only experience, as far as I can tell, with health care is he sued the Little Sisters of the Poor."
In the middle of a pandemic, Joe Biden nominated Xavier Becerra to HHS.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 23, 2021
Becerra has no background in virology, he never worked at a pharmaceutical company, and his only health care experience is that he sued the Little Sisters of the Poor. pic.twitter.com/L2GY9ydjvm
"If a Republican nominated a trial lawyer to lead the Health and Human Services Department in the midst of a global pandemic, they'd be laughed out of the room."
Pro-life groups have blasted out warnings about Becerra these past few weeks.
“During his time in public office, Xavier Becerra has displayed a vindictiveness towards those who protect the unborn as well as a disregard for actual healthcare," said March for Life president Jeanne Mancini. "He has a record of using his position to aggressively attack pro-life institutions and individuals, and clearly has no qualms about wielding his political power to promote taxpayer-funded abortions on demand up until birth - something with which the majority of Americans disagree. Confirming this nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services will only further divide America. Americans deserve a well-qualified professional with real medical experience at the helm of HHS, not a puppet for big abortion.”
National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, a non-profit that once sued Becerra after the California Department of Health tried to regulate pro-life pregnancy centers.
“The nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is a disgraceful attack on the pro-life values of millions of Americans," NIFLA Vice President of Legal Affairs Anne O’Connor said in a statement. "Becerra’s extensive track record of targeting pro-life centers and medical clinics – along with anyone that disagrees with his pro-abortion dogma – is evident for all to see. His appointment to HHS imperils pro-life pregnancy centers. These dedicated nonprofits provide more than $266,764,916 in free services annually to mothers, fathers, babies, and families nationwide. Failure to reject this nomination is a continuation of Becerra’s unconstitutional attacks on pregnancy centers in California and before the Supreme Court in NIFLA v. Becerra.”
Conservative Groups Lobby Joe Manchin to Sink Xavier Becerra’s Confirmation over Immigration, Abortion
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is feeling the heat to
betray President Joe Biden and his
Department of Health and Human Services
nominee, Xavier Becerra, due to his open
borders policies on immigration and abortion.
Manchin has said he “has not yet decided” whether to support Becerra. If Manchin defects to oppose his nomination and Senate Republicans vote in lockstep, Becerra will fall short of the 50 votes necessary for confirmation.
Conservative groups are fighting Becerra’s nomination, lobbying to win over Manchin, who has voted to defund Planned Parenthood in the past and campaigned as a pro-life Democrat in conservative West Virginia. Becerra, for his part, led a coalition of 21 attorneys general asking the Food and Drug Administration to increase access to reproductive telehealthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Another group unveiled an advertising blitz aimed at blocking Becerra. Heritage Action for America announced a $600,000 push through digital advertisements and television advertisements focused in the Washington, D.C., area.
The campaign criticized Becerra for not having a background in medicine and for pushing for left-wing causes such as loosening restrictions on immigration, according to a report. “He’s a radical partisan, an activist, not a doctor. In the middle of a pandemic, the wrong appointee, the wrong time,” the advertisement says.
Becerra’s Tuesday confirmation hearing could be one of the most divisive in the Biden administration’s opening days. Eleven GOP senators have already rendered him unfit to serve as the next HHS secretary, where he succeeded then-attorney general Kamala Harris.
Republican Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mike Braun (R-IN.) both said that they plan on holding Becerra accountable for his role in enforcing coronavirus restrictions the Supreme Court found unconstitutional.
As in 2016, Democrats advance a corrupt ruling-class candidate. Like the dead man Gary Ernst, Democrats want people to vote for Joe Biden so they can swap him out for Kamala Harris, already a beneficiary of voter fraud and with the exception of Xavier Becerra possibly the worst attorney general in California history.
Planned Parenthood’s New Report Reveals More Than 8.6 Million Abortions
Source: Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP
The number of lives ended in abortion by Planned Parenthood is staggering. But even one would be too many.
Planned Parenthood quietly released its most recent annual report last week for the fiscal year 2019–2020. The document highlighted the hurdles the nation’s largest abortion provider has faced, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Trump administration. And yet, business is booming. Planned Parenthood counted 354,871 abortions for the year 2019–2020 – the highest number ever recorded, according to data tracked by pro-life groups.
The aborted unborn are numbers to Planned Parenthood. They should be names.
Combining abortion numbers from years past published by pro-life group Live Action, pro-life leader Jill Stanek, and Planned Parenthood itself, the abortion giant has performed more than 8.6 million estimated abortions since 1970.
To put that in context, imagine a decimated New York City. Or countries with populations comparable to that of Switzerland or Israel destroyed.
Planned Parenthood affiliates saw a total of 2.4 million patients – 321,001 of whom were male – from 2018–2019, according to the report. Assuming that no patient had more than one abortion during that time period, roughly 17 percent of the female patients (~2,078,999) were there for an abortion. And yet, the report noted, “abortion services” accounted for just “3%” of “affiliate medical services.”
For years, the media have repeated the claim that abortions performed by Planned Parenthood consist of only 3 percent of the group’s total “services,” including NBC News and CNN. Only the rare media outlet, such as the Washington Post, has debunked the low 3 percent, along with pro-life groups.
In addition to the number of abortions rising to 354,871, Planned Parenthood affiliates also received more in taxpayer funding, or “Government Health Services Reimbursements & Grants.” The report boasted $618.1 million.
In contrast, according to its 2018—2019 annual report, Planned Parenthood provided 345,672 abortions while receiving $616.8 million in taxpayer funding.
But not all numbers rose. Prenatal services decreased from 9,798 in 2018—2019 to 8,626 in 2019–2020. Likewise, adoption referrals dropped dramatically from 4,279 in 2018—2019 to 2,667 in 2019–2020.
These numbers reveal Planned Parenthood’s priorities.
And, this year, Planned Parenthood hoped for even more growth – in certain areas – with the new Biden administration.
“Now, champions for sexual and reproductive health are in the White House,” the report’s introduction read. “We’re entering a new era where we can not only undo the damage of the last four years, but move policy, and collective imagination, forward.”
They’re already trying to move forward with abortion. In a Washington Post interview published in December, Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson called Planned Parenthood a “proud abortion provider” and went so far as to say that downplaying the number of its abortions actually “marginalizes” and “stigmatizes” abortion.
“Like: It’s really not a big deal that Planned Parenthood does this,” she insisted.
In 2019, McGill Johnson began leading Planned Parenthood after her predecessor, Leana Wen, claimed she was fired for not prioritizing abortion enough.
Planned Parenthood has demonstrated before how, even if it claims abortion is 3 percent, it dictates 100 percent of what it does. Planned Parenthood refused to give up abortion in exchange for federal funding after an offer by the Trump administration. Former workers, like Abby Johnson, have stressed that Planned Parenthood has an “abortion quota.”
Among other efforts to advance abortion, Planned Parenthood boasted about launching an “Abortion Service Locator” in its new report. The locator “provides people seeking an abortion with personalized information about their options.”
Other “highlights” from the report included the creation of a short film “showcasing four abortion storytellers” and a #BansOffMyBody campaign to “fight back against extreme, unnecessary state and federal bans and other restrictions on abortion.”
The introduction emphasized that Planned Parenthood still lives by its motto: “Care, no matter what.”
“At Planned Parenthood, especially this year, we choose hope,” the report read, “hope for a future where all our bodies are our own. Hope for a world where every person is seen, loved, and celebrated.”
Planned Parenthood is right – but not in the way that it intends. To it, the unborn child’s body is not his or her own. To it, the unborn baby girl or boy is not a human person of inherent dignity and worth.
Until Planned Parenthood sees, loves, and celebrates the unborn and their humanity, it can never claim to stand for the most vulnerable – the little guy.
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