‘BE VIGILANT’: Assistant Health Secretary Warns What Can Happen If Pro-Lifers Don’t Vote

Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services Brian Christine warned that the administration’s pro-life wins can be lost if pro-lifers don’t vote in November.

“We have to always be vigilant,” he told The Daily Signal in an interview. “All the wins that we’ve had in this administration all of the great things that have been done, it’s only one election cycle away from losing these things.”

Christine spoke with The Daily Signal on the morning of the March for Life in Washington, D.C. The 53rd annual march was attended by pro-lifers from around the country advocating for the right to life of unborn children.

“Every November is important. This November in 2026 is important. We have to vote,” he said. “We have to vote for those candidates and for those individuals supporting President [Donald] Trump because all of these victories we’re having as a pro-life group can be lost if the elections don’t go our way.”

Christine replaced the Biden administration’s assistant health secretary, Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman.

“I stand here a man in a man’s uniform,” Christine said. “I stand here saying that little boys are little boys, little girls are little girls. And that can never change. And that is a seismic shift from my predecessor.”

Christine said he agrees with Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy that abortion is a tragedy.

“The respect for life that this administration has is amazing,” he said. “From conception until death, we respect life. We protect our children. We stand for life, and we stand strong for life.”

Christine, whose office handles Title X family planning funding, said he is working to enforce the Hyde Amendment and stop taxpayer funding of abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.

“There has been a relinquishing of funds from Planned Parenthood, $2.3 million, because of the oversight of [the Department of Health and Human Services],” he said. “They’ve relinquished these funds. That means $2.3 million is not going to that abortion mill. $2.3 million will not be going toward killing our children, and that is huge.”

Last week, HHS released tens of millions in Title X family planning funds to Planned Parenthood and other clinics. But Planned Parenthood declined to accept the unfrozen funds, The Daily Caller reported.

“We provided incredible oversight, and that’s why this $2.3 million is being relinquished from Planned Parenthood of the Northwest,” Christine said. “And so, the point is we always watch our funds. We always oversight. This $2.3 million won’t go toward killing children. It’s gonna go toward life.”

Veteran pro-life operative Tom McClusky previously told The Daily Signal that reinstating the Protect Life Rule, which prohibits Title X-funded counselors from recommending abortion, would be the best way to make sure funds don’t go to Planned Parenthood.

When asked if HHS would reinstate the Protect Life Rule, which was rescinded by the Biden administration, Christine said, “What we are gonna ensure in this administration, and through my office and through HHS, is that federal funds are not gonna be going toward performing abortions or facilitating abortions, and that’s incredibly important.”

Trump’s HHS marks a “seismic shift from the prior administration,” according to Christine.

In 2026, HHS pro-life priorities include “ensuring federal dollars don’t go toward abortions or facilitating abortions, ensuring that funding for [National Institutes of Health] grants doesn’t go toward those studies that use those embryonic tissues obtained from elective abortions, and standing again for mothers.”

“This is one of the most pro-woman and pro-mother health care administrations that the world has ever seen,” Christine said. “All of these things are gonna protect life.”

When asked by The Daily Signal how he would respond to people who say the Trump administration is not doing enough to regulate the chemical abortion pill, Christine said the safety review of mifepristone is ongoing.

“Commissioner of the [Food and Drug Administration] Dr. Marty Makary has that review ongoing,” he said. “They’re collecting data. I’m gonna defer to him on those things, but understand that that is ongoing, that data is being collected.”

Pro-life leaders have expressed their frustration that the administration has not done more to regulate the chemical abortion pill, the predominant method of abortion. Makary has promised to oversee a robust safety review of the abortion pill, but after a year of the Trump administration, the review is still in the data acquisition phase.

“There’s already ample evidence out there showing the dangers of this drug,” Live Action President Lila Rose told The Daily Signal. “The fact that it kills babies in and of itself disqualifies it from being considered health care. What we are urging the administration do is pull the drug immediately.”

Christine promised to “keep his foot on the accelerator when it comes to protecting our children, protecting the unborn, doing the things that matter to the right to life movement and HHS.”

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