Paula White-Cain

  • Special Government Employee and Senior Advisor of White House Faith Office
    • The White House Faith Office
    • White House (Executive Office of the President of the United States)
  • As Senior Advisor of the White House Faith Office, White-Cain advises and assists the President in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of policy related to religious liberty and faith-based initiatives. She has the opportunity to make recommendations to fund fake clinics, weaponize religious liberty to protect violent anti-abortion activists, and expand religious refusals provisions that allow health care providers to deny people access to care.

    Paula White-Cain assumed office on February 9, 2025.
Top red flags

Top red flags

Statements

Statements

  • After Roe v. Wade was overturned, White-Cain issued statements praising the Supreme Court and calling the Dobbs decision a “victory for the sanctity of life after 50 years of judiciary-sanctioned abortion.”
  • White-Cain publicly proclaimed, “It’s not okay to have an abortion, it’s not okay to marry the same sex.”
  • White-Cain praised the President for pardoning 23 individuals convicted of violating the FACE Act. Many of those pardoned were serving prison sentences for physically blocking patients from accessing their doctors. Some of the offenses committed include breaking into clinics, stealing fetal tissue from clinics, and accosting pregnant patients.
  • In describing a week in her work as the leader of the White House Faith Office, White-Cain stated that she worked on “life issues.”
  • White-Cain celebrated the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule, a harmful and regressive policy that restricts U.S. foreign assistance to organizations providing, counseling, or advocating for legal abortion services—regardless of local laws or non-U.S. funding sources.
Publications

Publications

  • White-Cain has written extensively on her anti-abortion stance in her role as Chair of the Center for American Values at America First Policy Institute including:
    • An op-ed in which she celebrated the closure of abortion clinics and the enactment of restrictive abortion laws, urged further support for fake abortion clinics, also known as Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs), and called for “public policy that builds a culture of life.”
    • A policy memo, co-authored with Heidi Overton, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, which referred to the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), legislation to enshrine abortion rights nationwide, as an example of “radicalism” and “extremism” while falsely claiming that the bill would authorize “practices that are indistinguishable from infanticide.”
  • White-Cain authored an article calling the Dobbs decision a “landmark victory for life in the nation’s highest court” and advocated for reforming Title X so that CPCs are not required to inform patients about the full spectrum of options, including abortion.
  • White-Cain co-authored an op-ed in which she advocated for fetal personhood under the law and stated that “we must stand up for the lives of the unborn, not just today but every day”.
  • White-Cain authored an op-ed that called for ending medication abortion, supported funding for CPCs, and advocated for men to have a say in a partner’s reproductive decisions.
  • White-Cain co-authored an op-ed in which she used problematic and inflammatory rhetoric on abortion.
Extremist connections

Extremist connections

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