Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra made a poorly received attempt to define a human life during a hearing with the House Education and Labor Committee Wednesday.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn asked the secretary for the definition during a hearing titled “Examining the Policies and Priorities of [HHS].”
“If you are out there making things happen, if you’re surviving the tough challenges before us, if you’re making it through and have a loving family that’s helping you out,” Becerra replied, “all those things make it possible for Americans to move forward in a way that makes them prosper and become leaders for our country.”
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Cawthorn was not pleased with the secretary’s definition, taking to Twitter to call it “unbelievable.”
BREAKING: Here’s how the Secretary of Health and *HUMAN* Services defines a human life:
-If you’re “out there making things happen”
-If you’re “surviving the tough challenges before us”
-If you “have a loving family that’s helping you out”Unbelievable. #JusticeForTheFive pic.twitter.com/AqRfn9XVfV
— Rep. Madison Cawthorn (@RepCawthorn) April 6, 2022
The North Carolina representative used the increasingly popular hashtag: “Justice for the Five,” referencing the five fetal remains recovered from anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy’s apartment in Washington, D.C., last week.
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Handy is a member of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising and was recently indicted for blockading an abortion clinic in 2020.
After being called to Handy’s residence last week, the Metropolitan Police Department discovered the remains.
Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising had upward of 100 remains that it similarly arranged for the police to collect. The organization claims that all the remains were illegally aborted in their late term.
