Trump’s Anti-Choice Advisory Council Includes Hate Group Leader, Members of Congress
In a a letter to anti-choice leaders earlier this month asking them to join the council, Trump made a series of promises to solidify his commitment to their cause, which included making permanent the Hyde Amendment’s annual ban on federal funding for most abortion care and signing a medically dubious 20-week abortion ban into law.
On Thursday, Donald Trump’s campaign announced the members of his anti-choice advisory council, which includes several congressional representatives and the leader of the Family Research Council—an anti-LGBTQ organization classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
According to Marjorie Dannenfelser, the leader of the council and president of the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List, this group “will communicate Mr. Trump’s pro-life commitments to people in their sphere of influence, speak out in support of the Trump-Pence ticket and, most importantly, recruit state co-chairs for the coalition who will in turn drive the campaign’s pro-life message out to each individual voter.”
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