Paula White-Cain
Top red flags
Publications
Top red flags
- Has written extensively on her anti-abortion viewpoints, including spreading misinformation about medication abortion and abortions later in pregnancy.
- Celebrated the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule and the pardoning of Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act violators.
- Founded the National Faith Advisory Board which advocates to “protect the unborn.”
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.
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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
- White-Cain served as the Chair of the Center for American Values at America First Policy Institute, an organization that, among other priorities, works to “honor the sanctity of every innocent human life” and eliminate all federal funding for abortion providers. She is listed as one of the organization’s experts on religious liberty.
- White-Cain is President and Founder of the National Faith Advisory Board, a group that is openly anti-abortion and advocates to “protect the unborn.”
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