Biden Health Secretary Nominee On Opposing Ban On Late-Term Abortion: ‘We Can Find Some Common Ground’

Health secretary nominee Xavier Becerra waffled on a question from Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on the nominee’s past opposition to a ban on partial-birth abortion.

Romney questioned Becerra, who serves as California’s attorney general, during a Tuesday Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. During his line of questioning, Romney asked Becerra why he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortion, an abortion in the second or third trimester of a pregnancy, typically after the point of viability, while he served in the U.S. House of Representatives.