On Tuesday, November 29, President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Rep. Price’s nomination sends an ominous signal that Trump’s pledge to roll back reproductive rights during the campaign wasn’t just rhetoric. Rep. Price is an anti-choice extremist who has supported legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, he was a cosponsor of the radical “Right to Life Act” which would have granted legal personhood status to fetuses, and a cosponsor of Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a 20 week abortion ban based on the scientifically debunked claim that fetuses at that stage of development can experience pain. Rep. Price’s career in Congress has earned him a grade of “zero” from Planned Parenthood Action.
Rep. Price has repeatedly used his power in Congress to advance his own personal religious beliefs and demonstrated a complete disregard for the experience of the women who would be impacted by his legislation. One particularly troubling example is a claim he made about birth control during a 2012 interview with the website Think Progress:...
http://www.secularvaluesvoter.org/2016/12/01/the-price-is-religious-freedom/
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