By Dave Andrusko
In a letter sent March 10th to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and more than 50 other House Republicans, “express[ed] our serious concerns regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) formation of the Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access.”
On January 22, the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, “your Department announced the formation of a new Task Force that has labeled terminating the lives of unborn children to be ‘essential sexual and reproductive health care.’”
“We adamantly disagree with your premise–abortion is not health care,” the letter continues. “Abortion robs a person of health and life itself. Since 1973, 63 million innocent lives have been lost to abortion.”
The congresspersons charged that the Task Force “was established to promote abortion in response to pro-life laws passed by states in 2021 and to increase abortions in foreign countries.”
“The taxpayer dollars that fund HHS should be focused on promoting the highest quality of health information and care to all individuals, both born and unborn,” Carter and his colleagues wrote. “They should not be used to promote a pro-abortion agenda in a shameless attempt to override the pro-life legislation that is being promoted in the states and defended in countries around the world.
“The American people deserve to learn more about this Task Force.”
To that end, the letter asks Secretary Becerra for detailed responses to eight questions by May 9th.
“Women deserve better than abortion,” they conclude. “They deserve the support they need to care for their babies and themselves.”