The religious activists on the rise inside Trump’s health department

News / October 22, 2018

Critics fret some agency leaders are blurring the lines between church and state.

A small cadre of politically prominent religious activists inside the Department of Health and Human Services have spent months quietly planning how to weaken federal protections for abortion and transgender care — a strategy that’s taking shape in a series of policy moves that took even their own staff by surprise.

“To have leaders like Roger, like Shannon, it’s so important,” said Deanna Wallace of Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion group that was frequently at odds with the Obama administration. “It’s extremely encouraging to have HHS on our side this time.”

“You will see exciting things in the coming days, and that’s all I can say right now. But good stuff is coming,” Royce promised attendees at last Thursday’s anti-abortion conference. She then urged the audience — with hundreds of attendees in town for the March for Life, the nation’s largest anti-abortion rally — to play a part in helping HHS achieve its strategy.

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