{"id":31859,"date":"2025-01-29T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/rfk-jr-faces-questions-about-u-turn-on-abortion-in-us-senate-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:49:07","slug":"rfk-jr-faces-questions-about-u-turn-on-abortion-in-us-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/rfk-jr-faces-questions-about-u-turn-on-abortion-in-us-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr faces questions about U-turn on abortion in US Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health secretary nominee once identified as \u2018pro-choice\u2019 but said he agrees with Trump \u2018every abortion is a tragedy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for health secretary, faced questions about his flip-flopping on reproductive rights in a US Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy identified as \u201cpro-choice\u201d during his presidential campaign as a Democrat, but said repeatedly in Wednesday\u2019s hearing for secretary of health and human services (HHS) that he agreed with Trump that \u201cevery abortion is a tragedy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/29\/rfk-jr-abortion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health secretary nominee once identified as \u2018pro-choice\u2019 but said he agrees with Trump \u2018every abortion is a tragedy\u2019 Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for health secretary, faced questions about his flip-flopping on reproductive rights in a US Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Kennedy identified as \u201cpro-choice\u201d during his presidential campaign as a Democrat, &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr faces questions about U-turn on abortion in US Senate hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/rfk-jr-faces-questions-about-u-turn-on-abortion-in-us-senate-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr faces questions about U-turn on abortion in US Senate hearing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}