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WASHINGTON, D.C., February 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, came under fire this week for his refusal to answer questions about his pro-abortion stance, going so far as to invoke the rosary in one of his dodges Wednesday.
As highlighted by the Daily Caller, Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana pressed Becerra on whether there were any abortion restrictions he would support; Becerra refused to name any.
“But is there, to be clear, is there any line you would draw?” Daines asked. “Is there just one restriction, as it relates to abortion, that you might support?”
“From the stories I’ve heard from my wife, I know how hard many women struggle just to save the life of their baby,” Becerra responded. “I know that right now, as I speak, my mother has blessed me this morning, as I got ready to come here and last night I know when she prayed the rosary as she does every day, every evening with my aunt, that she said a prayer and included me in that prayer.”
Interesting moment where Biden HHS nominee Xavier Becerra avoids naming any abortion restrictions he would support/where he would draw the line on abortion by talking about how his mother likes to pray the rosary. pic.twitter.com/zim8g9NPUs
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) February 24, 2021
The Hyde Amendment prohibits the use of most federal funds for abortions, except in some limited circumstances.
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'200 GOP congressmen slam Democrats, say they’ll never vote for tax-funded abortions' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/200-gop-congressmen-slam-democrats-say-theyll-never-vote-for-tax-funded-abortions
2019 Poll on the Hyde Amendment - https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/11/poll-abortion-funding-reversal-helps-biden-with-primary-voters-1359210
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As Attorney General of the Golden State, Becerra has shown a marked hostility to Americans who follow Judeo-Christian teaching on matters such as abortion and homosexuality, from forcing churches to subsidize elective abortions and nuns to subsidize contraceptives, to forcing pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise abortion resources, to refusing to fund state employees’ travel to South Carolina in protest of its law protecting adoption agencies that insist on giving children both a mother and a father.
Becerra was also responsible for enforcing draconian restrictions on religious assembly in the name of containing COVID-19, and joined other Democrat officials across the country in using the pandemic as a justification to demand abortion pills be approved for unsupervised home use.
Throughout the week, Republican senators assailed Becerra for his support of effectively-unlimited abortion and his refusal to own up to it, including his refusal to answer whether babies aborted in the second trimester should be given pain medication beforehand.