An “evenhanded person” is needed in the administration when it comes to fighting back against abortion, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services will be that person, the Rev. Frank Pavone, the national director for Priests for Life, said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“In the past, we have had what we call over these decades the ‘abortion distortion,’ people who give the abortion industry a free pass,” Pavone told Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “All the rules apply to other areas of medicine, except abortion standards are lower and they’re violated and they get away with it.”

Kennedy has said that he agrees with President Donald Trump that “every abortion is a tragedy,” and that “we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year.”

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