Trump names anti-abortion leader Yoest to top HHS post

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By RACHANA PRADHAN 04/28/17 10:32 AM EDT

President Donald Trump Friday said he would name one of the most prominent anti-abortion activists in the country to a top communications post at Health and Human Services.

Charmaine Yoest, tapped to be to be assistant secretary of public affairs, is a senior fellow at American Values. She is the former president of Americans United for Life, one of the most prominent anti-abortion groups in the country, which has been instrumental in advancing anti-abortion legislation at the state level to restrict access to the procedure.

AUL’s website — which states that the group offers state lawmakers 32 different pieces of model legislation to restrict access to abortion — characterizes Yoest as “public enemy #1” for abortion rights organizations. The assistant secretary of public affairs shapes communications efforts for the entire agency.

Yoest isn’t the only Trump administration appointee who has expressed critical views about abortion and other social issues. Katy Talento, a health aide for the White House Domestic Policy Council , has taken the controversial view that contraception poses major dangers to women and causes abortion and miscarriages.

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[Me.]

1. And This Is Why

The DEms better hold the line

[Sculpin Beauregard]

2. Apparently it's an 'open secret' in NY that

Trump made 12 women have abortions and sign non-disclosure agreements. What a fucking hypocrite. He's pandering to his rotten, fucked-in-the-head base.

[MBS]

11. I've been assuming that this would have to be the case.

As you said, pandering, lying hypocrite.

[Initech]

3. Jerry Falwell Jr wasn't available?

Fuck this fucking administration. God damn them.

[47of74]

4. Visual representation of what Agent Orange is doing to this country

Here's a visual representation of what Agent Orange is doing to this country by the people he appoints....

[not fooled]

5. Thanks, Susan Sarandon

[keroro gunsou]

6. ok i'm confused

why thank her?

[not fooled]

13. Do an internet search

on "Susan Sarandon Trump election"

[Ligyron]

7. Continuing in his tradition of appointing the worst individuals imaginable to run our agencies.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. The economy is weak, job growth faltering

Americans are voting with their wallets

Of course WWIII will revive production a bit. Any bets on a timetable?

[niyad]

9. are any of us surprised?

[Solly Mack]

10. Quick. Someone open the Ivanka Trump doll box so she can plaster a smile on this and tell us

again how her daddy respects women.

[MBS]

12. HHS and NIH would have to be going insane right now. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

14. Thanks Ivanka! Your influence has really been working out well for the

women of this country!

[musette_sf]

15. Fasten your seat belts, women -

between Cheeto Caligula, and Sen Sanders' BFF, gestational slavery advocate Heath "Harshed" Mello, we are under attack from the Rs and from OUR OWN PARTY. THIS is coming soon to a reality near you:

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