{"id":2518,"date":"2024-11-15T19:20:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pence-urges-senate-to-reject-rfk-jr-for-hhs-over-abortion-stance-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:20:38","slug":"pence-urges-senate-to-reject-rfk-jr-for-hhs-over-abortion-stance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pence-urges-senate-to-reject-rfk-jr-for-hhs-over-abortion-stance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence urges Senate to reject RFK Jr. for HHS over abortion stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pence is urging Senate Republicans to not confirm Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, calling his nomination by President-elect Donald Trump &ldquo;deeply concerning.&rdquo; &ldquo;I believe the nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning to millions of Pro-Life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and our nominees for decades,&rdquo; Pence said in a statement Friday on behalf of his conservative nonprofit Advancing American Freedom&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/15\/congress\/rfk-jr-trump-abortion-hhs-00189818\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pence is urging Senate Republicans to not confirm Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, calling his nomination by President-elect Donald Trump &ldquo;deeply concerning.&rdquo; &ldquo;I believe the nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}