Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) grilled Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra over his position on abortion, asking whether there was any case in which he would support imposing restrictions on women seeking to terminate their pregnancies.
During a Tuesday hearing, Kennedy posed a hypothetical scenario — a healthy baby and a healthy mother, one day before the due date — and Becerra repeatedly refused to say whether he’d support banning abortion even in that case.
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“Would you support making it illegal to abort a baby, if the mother is healthy, and the baby is healthy, on the day before that baby is scheduled to be born?”@SenJohnKennedy presses @SecBecerra on his support for no-limits abortion pic.twitter.com/K2mkoSGW0i
— SBA Pro-Life America (@sbaprolife) April 16, 2024
After thanking Secretary Becerra for his time, Kennedy…