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marmar

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Sun Dec 1, 2024, 07:32 PM Dec 1

Anti-Vaxxers and Abortion Opponents Celebrate Trump's Pick to Run CDC


(Mother Jones) What do anti-vaxxers and abortion opponents have in common? They both see an ally in David Weldon, who is now President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The physician and ex-Florida congressman‘s track record includes introducing legislation that would have stripped the CDC of its authority to conduct research on vaccine safety and instead given it to an independent agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. Weldon has also promoted the unfounded theory that vaccines lead to childhood autism—a false claim boosted infamously in the past by Trump’s pick for HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And on abortion, Weldon is responsible for an eponymous federal law that prohibits HHS from funding any entities that “discriminate” against health care providers, hospitals, or insurance plans who opt out of providing abortion care—which the Trump administration “weaponized” to enact its anti-abortion agenda during his first term, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Weldon introduced the amendment in the House in 2004, and it has been passed as part of the HHS spending bill every year since 2005.

While in Congress, Weldon also co-sponsored legislation that sought to bar HHS from providing any Title X family planning funding to entities that provide abortions. (Then-Rep. Mike Pence sponsored that bill, and Trump enacted that policy in office, when Pence was vice president.) Weldon also supported a bill that proposed studying unsubstantiated links between abortion and depression.

Neither Weldon nor Trump have been shy about acknowledging these positions. On Weldon’s campaign site for his unsuccessful run for the Florida statehouse earlier this year, he promotes his record on so-called “vaccine safety,” as well as his “100% pro-life voting record” and the anti-abortion amendments he passed in Congress. When Trump announced Weldon as his choice to run the CDC on Nov. 22, he noted Weldon’s history “addressing issues within HHS and CDC,” including that he “worked with the CDC to enact a ban on patents for human embryos.” ................(more)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/dave-weldon-cdc-trump-vaccines-abortion/




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Anti-Vaxxers and Abortion Opponents Celebrate Trump's Pick to Run CDC (Original Post) marmar Dec 1 OP
God he's from Florida Dem4life1234 Dec 1 #1
Florida no doubt has heavy Russian influence, we're proper fucked uponit7771 Dec 1 #2
What do they have in common? Superstitious hatred of science and women Maru Kitteh Dec 1 #3
More medical tourism for Canada coming up! dutch777 Dec 1 #4
Looks like lots more stories LPBBEAR Dec 2 #5

LPBBEAR

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5. Looks like lots more stories
Mon Dec 2, 2024, 06:22 AM
Dec 2

will be coming ahead at the Herman Cain Award site on Reddit.

Each one a Trump voter.

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