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On an extended version of Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC, the eponymous host welcomed Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and demanded to know not once, not twice, but three times, what the administration is doing to protect abortion.
Diaz-Balart’s abortion promotion began with the softest of softballs, “Secretary, give us more information about the steps that the federal government is taking now.”
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Becerra began by blasting the “despicable” Dobbs ruling, but tried to assuage MSNBC’s fears, “[ Dobbs ] just makes it much more difficult in certain places and what we’re going to do is make sure we use every leverage and authority we have to try to help every woman in America access the health care, including abortion care that they might need.”
Perhaps unsatisfied with the lack of specifics, Diaz-Balart asked for a second time, “Now, you know, even with the steps you laid out yesterday, you said we’re keeping every option on the table. What other steps are you looking at possibly taking that you have not already announced.”
This time Becerra acknowledged the existence of birth control, but also “Medication abortion, still available in many different ways. It might be more difficult for some women, but medication abortion is there.”
Becerra proceeded to almost repeated the “HHS unveils plan to protect women’s reproductive rights,” chyron verbatim when he added “we will explore everything we can do and working with Department of Justice, we’ll make sure we’re trying to protect the rights of women to access reproductive health care services.”
For Diaz-Balart, this only raised more questions. For a third time he asked what the government would do promote abortions, “Secretary, I want to, kind of, hone in on what […]
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