Becerra For HHS Is Malpractice

Becerra Has No Health Care Experience And Has Spent His Political Career Sympathizing With Dictators, Bullying Nuns, And Advocating For A Single-Payer Takeover
 

BECERRA HAS NO HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCE

• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) on Becerra: “I would have liked to see the HHS secretary have public health experience.”
• The Washington Post: Becerra “has little health policy experience.”
• USA Today: “A former attorney with no medical experience.”
• Politico: “Becerra has little experience managing a bureaucracy as large and diverse as HHS. He also has little background in public health…”
• Kaiser Health News: “An HHS Nominee With … No Front-Line Health Experience”

BECERRA IS AN ABORTION RADICAL - USING HIS POSITION AS CALIFORNIA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PUSH FOR FAR-LEFT ABORTION POLICIES

• As California’s Attorney General, Becerra actively defended “some of the nation’s most liberal laws and policies on abortion.”
  • More than 60 pro-life organizations: Becerra “has demonstrated complete disregard for the religious and moral convictions of those opposed” to abortion.
  • Executive Director of Democrats for Life Kristen Day: Becerra made abortion advocacy “part of his foundation … he has an abortion agenda.”
• Becerra fought to force faith-based crisis pregnancy centers to advertise for abortion, a stance the Supreme Court ruled violated the First Amendment and even liberal Justices expressed concerns about.
• During his confirmation hearings, Becerra refused to name a single abortion restriction he supported, including sex-selective abortions, aborting babies based on disorders, and partial birth abortion.
  • Becerra refused to commit to existing federal law blocking federal funding of abortion.

BECERRA HAS ATTACKED RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

• As California Attorney General, Becerra sued to block religious liberty protections for Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic organization of nuns that cares for the elderly.
  • If Becerra had won his lawsuit, the nuns would have been forced to either pay for contraceptives - violating their deeply held religious beliefs – or pay exorbitant fines.
• Becerra also defended California’s sweeping bans on houses of worship during the pandemic, restrictions that the Supreme Court ruled last month violate the First Amendment.

BECERRA REFUSED TO STAND UP TO HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS CHINA AND CUBA

• After visiting China in 1997, Becerra defended the Chinese Communist Party against allegations of widespread human rights abuses.
  • Becerra: “We have two very different cultures, and we have two very different perspectives on the world … that’s not to say one perspective is better than the other.”
  • In 1997, the State Department reported that China was actively infringing on the human rights of the people living in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong.
• In 1996, just weeks before he was elected chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Becerra traveled to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro.
  • Becerra rejected a request from top human rights group Freedom House to bring an aid package including medicine and coloring books for the Cuban people.
  • While he refused to take medicine, Becerra went out of his way to obtain “special Treasury Department licenses” to take his family on the supposed “fact-finding” trip.
• Becerra’s trip was organized by Alicia Torres, a longtime pro-Castro activist, and was joined by Rep. Esteban Torres (D-CA), who later told the Miami Herald that he "just didn’t see" any evidence of Castro’s human-rights abuses on the trip. 
  • Because Becerra was unwilling to call for free and fair elections in Cuba, two Cuban American lawmakers “angrily resigned” from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which Becerra helmed.

BECERRA IS A SUPPORTER OF A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE

• Becerra: “I’ve been a supporter of Medicare for All for the 24 years that I was in Congress.”
• Becerra co-sponsored bills that would have set up a “single payer” health care system at least 6 times in Congress.