{"id":37552,"date":"2025-04-01T00:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/hawley-officially-a-yes-on-dr-oz-after-securing-commitments-on-transgender-abortion-issues\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:31:27","slug":"hawley-officially-a-yes-on-dr-oz-after-securing-commitments-on-transgender-abortion-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/hawley-officially-a-yes-on-dr-oz-after-securing-commitments-on-transgender-abortion-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawley officially a yes on Dr. Oz after securing commitments on transgender, abortion issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX<\/strong>: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.<\/a>, will vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nominee, Dr. Mehmet Oz, after securing commitments from him regarding transgender treatments for minors and abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“On this basis, I will vote to confirm him. Now that I am confident that he has moved away from his previous positions, and he’s moved into alignment with the president, I feel comfortable voting for him,” he told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The senator revealed that Oz responded to his<\/a> inquiries and disavowed his past stances on transgender treatments for minors and abortion in a series of posts on X earlier in the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Dr. Oz has responded to my questions re: past support for trans treatments for minors & his criticism of right to life. Oz now disavows his previous support for trans surgeries & drugs for minor children. He pledges to \u2018end chemical and surgical mutilation of children,\u2019” Hawley wrote on X on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He also walks back past criticism of state pro-life laws, says he supports the Dobbs decision, and is \u2018unequivocally pro-life.\u2019 He vows to enforce conscience protections, end the abuse of [the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act], and work to end funding for abortion providers,” he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This was really a big shift of position for him,” he explained, adding that he was “delighted” by Oz’s responses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When it comes to the [transgender] issue and the life issue, those are non-negotiable for me, just as I believe they are for the president,” the Missouri Republican explained. “I want to know that these people are 100% clear.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Every member of the Trump administration is working from the same playbook, President Trump\u2019s playbook, to restore commonsense policies and put an end to left-wing ideological nonsense afflicting our government,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News Digital in a statement. “We look forward to the Senate\u2019s swift confirmation of Dr. Oz so he can join the rest of our all-star team at HHS working to Make America Healthy Again by restoring common sense, transparency, and confidence in our healthcare apparatus.”<\/p>\n

Earlier in the month, Hawley sent Oz a list of questions, specifically probing him on those issues. As of last week, Hawley said the nominee hadn’t responded, which the senator called “strange.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oz previously used his television show as a platform for people who supported and promoted transgender treatments, particularly for minors. Specifically, he hosted two transgender<\/u><\/a> children on his show in 2010 in a segment titled, “Transgender Kids: Too Young to Decide?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also expressed concerns about state laws to limit abortion during a 2019 interview<\/u><\/a> on the popular radio show “The Breakfast Club.”<\/p>\n

It’s “a hard issue for everybody,” he said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And while on “a personal level,” Oz didn’t like abortion, he also believed he should not “interfere with everyone else\u2019s stuff,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Oz also opposed government jurisdiction on the subject of abortion when he ran for Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican in 2022.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t want the federal government involved with that at all,” he claimed during a debate with now-Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. “I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that\u2019s always allowed our nation to thrive, to put the best ideas forward, so states can decide for themselves.”<\/p>\n

Hawley’s commitments from Oz are just the latest he’s received from Trump nominees as he considers them for confirmation. He previously got assurances from now-Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the same issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When it came to now-leader of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Dr. Marty Makary, Hawley led a successful campaign to secure the resignation of a top lawyer with the FDA who previously argued in favor of abortion pill access in a high-profile case<\/u><\/a> while in former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ).\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I just view my role for those I have to vote on \u2014 I want to know that these people are going to align with the president,” Hawley said, noting that he believes Trump has “moved really fast [and] really strong” on the issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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