Fr. Mark Hodges
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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — In a stunning change of direction from the Obama administration, the Trump Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not only declared that human life begins “at conception,” but has made protecting citizens “from conception to natural death” one of its top priorities.
While the Obama HHS under Kathleen Sebelius championed abortion coverage, the HHS under Trump’s pick Tom Price proposed in its newly released draft “strategic plan” to rescind that mandate and defend life and religious liberty. The strategic plan, dated September 2017, sets goals beginning in 2018 and ending 2022.
The proposed plan states that HHS will serve and protect Americans at “every stage of life, beginning at conception” and up through “natural death.”
The HHS specifically states under the first goal of “Reform, Strengthen, and Modernize the Nation’s Health Care” that its “ultimate goal is to improve healthcare outcomes for all people, including the unborn.”
Pro-lifers are cheering the proposed plan while abortion activists have expressed outrage.
“The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) applauds the recognition that human life begins at the ‘moment of conception’
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