Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Threatens Your Reproductive Freedom

Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Nominee


The failed presidential candidate voiced support for a national abortion ban and would have the power to significantly restrict access to sexual and reproductive health care.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has previously signaled—clearly and unequivocally—his support for a national abortion ban and has spread dangerous disinformation and conspiracies.

If confirmed as HHS secretary, reproductive freedom faces an existential threat—but together we can fight back and make sure our senators don’t confirm this nominee.

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Background on HHS and Reproductive Freedom
  • The Secretary of HHS oversees the implementation of programs and initiatives impacting the health and well-being of people across our country and has the power to significantly impact access to sexual and reproductive health care.
  • The Secretary also manages essential public health programs like the Title X Family Planning Program and Medicaid, in addition to handling complaints and investigations of emergency abortion care denials under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
  • We already know that Trump sees HHS as a key component of his work to decimate reproductive freedom. During Trump’s first term, his administration leveraged the HHS to roll back access to reproductive health care, including abortion and contraception.
Threats to Reproductive Freedom

With an anti-abortion advocate at the helm of HHS, Project 2025 outlines how the agency can systematically decimate access to abortion care and contraception, including by:

  • Refusing to accept complaints about denials of emergency abortion care
  • Halting investigations into hospitals that unlawfully refuse to provide emergency abortion care
  • Undermining the Title X family planning network by forcing out health care professionals who offer abortion and contraception care
  • Cutting family planning funding
  • Allowing employers to deny birth control coverage
  • Effectively banning abortion nationwide by rescinding the FDA’s approval of abortion medication mifepristone, even without the consent of FDA scientists
  • Project 2025 directs HHS to change or implement policies that threaten access to emergency abortion care, birth control, assisted fertility treatments like IVF, and suggests monitoring/tracking pregnant people—including if they have an abortion—creating a surveillance state for pregnant people

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RFK Jr.'s Record on Reproductive Freedom

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