February 23, 2021
Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins at USA Today on why Xavier Becerra’s nomination to HHS in Trouble & Should be Rejected.
“Consistently, Becerra has used his authority against those who do not share his views. Given all the challenges ahead for America during this pandemic, we don’t need an unqualified, divisive litigator running healthcare at HHS,” writes SFLAction’s Hawkins, urges people to visit StopBecerra.com.
WASHINGTON D.C. (02-23-2021) – Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins noted that the vote on Xavier Becerra as President Biden’s pick to head Health and Human Services would be a scored vote, explaining the many reason why the “famously partisan” attorney was a bad choice in an op-ed up at USA Today. You can monitor SFLA/SFLAction’s real-time response to Tuesday and Wednesday hearings on the nomination at SFLAction’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Read our official letter urging the United States Senate to reject the nomination of Xavier Becerra to head HHS.
In opposition to Becerra for head of HHS, SFLAction has also:
- Conducted extensive outreach to voters in the 50 states. Learn more at StopBecerra.com and ThisisChemicalAbortion.com.
- Engaged in a targeted campaign, focusing on 10 Senators in particular to vote NO on Becerra.
- Educated pro-life activists nationwide in a national webcast with Senators Steve Daines and Tom Cotton on Becerra’s record.
- Spearheaded a letter to the U.S. Senate, signed by more than 40 organizations outlining concerns.
At USA Today, Hawkins noted the following on Becerra’s treatment of Americans:
Xavier Becerra, Biden’s pick for head of HHS, is in trouble for good reason
The former California attorney general has been rebuked by the Supreme Court and he’s simply unqualified to run healthcare in a pandemic.
By Kristan Hawkins
Opinion contributor
Xavier Becerra is under fire as President Joe Biden’s first choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services for many reasons, from his litigious opposition to former President Trump’s administration in filing more than 100 lawsuits, to his advocacy for “Medicare for All,” to his championing a convicted drug dealer for a pardon. But on the issue of abortion, Becerra has a decades’ old track record of siding with the abortion lobby whenever possible and using the power of his office to try and force others to share his enthusiastic support of abortion up until the moment of birth.
Read the full op-ed from USA TODAY here.
Learn more about other pro-life issues at play at Students for Life Action.
For interviews, contact Kristi Hamrick at [email protected].
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Students for Life Action (SFLAction) is the 501c4 sister organization of Students for Life of America (SFLA), the nation’s largest, pro-life, student organization with more than 1,240 groups on middle, high school, and university campuses in all 50 states. Students for Life has more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry every day, week, and year than any other pro-life outreach in the world and mobilizes the Pro-Life Generation to confront abortion at the local, state and national levels daily. Every week, Students for Life entities reach more than 2 million people across social media platforms to have nearly 200,000 digital conversations with the most engaged pro-life online audience in the world.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) is the nation’s largest, pro-life, youth organization. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, SFLA serves more than 1,240 groups on college and university, middle and high school, medical and law school campuses in all 50 states. Student pro-life organizations work to confront policies on their campuses to support pregnant and parenting students, to end Planned Parenthood’s relationships with schools and communities, and to change minds of their peers about abortion. SFLA has more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry every day, week, and year than any other pro-life organization.