Senate Confirms Pro-Life Doctor Marty Makary to Head FDA

The U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Marty Makary as the new Commissioner of Food and Drugs, placing the Johns Hopkins surgeon and health policy expert at the helm of the FDA. Makary garnered enough support from both Republicans and several Democrats to secure confirmation.

Trump’s nominee to head the FDA, pro-life Dr. Marty Makary,comes at a key time when pro-life groups are pushing to stop or restrict the dangerous mifepristone abortion pill that has killed millions of babies and injured and killed women.

A renowned surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Makary brings a wealth of experience to the role. He holds degrees from Bucknell University, Thomas Jefferson University, and Harvard University, and completed his surgical residency at Georgetown University, followed by sub-specialty training in surgical oncology and gastrointestinal surgery at Johns Hopkins. Makary is best known for his research on surgical safety, including authoring the original scientific publications on “The Surgery Checklist,” a protocol credited with reducing complications in operating rooms worldwide.

During his tenure at Johns Hopkins, Makary was named the Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery, becoming the youngest endowed chair recipient at the university at the time. He later served as the Credentials Chair and Director of Quality and Safety for Surgery at Johns Hopkins, roles that highlighted his focus on improving patient outcomes and fostering teamwork in medicine.

Makary will lead the FDA under the guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump nominated and the Senate confirmed to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“I am confident that Dr. Makary, having dedicated his career to High-Quality, Lower-Cost Care, will restore FDA to the Gold Standard of Scientific Research, and cut the bureaucratic red tape at the Agency to make sure Americans get the Medical Cures and Treatments they deserve,” Trump said in a statement announcing Makary’s nomination.

During the hearing, under questioning from pro-life Senator Josh Hawley, Dr. Marty Makary commented on Joe Biden’s reckless move to remove in-person requirements to dispense and receive the dangerous abortion drug mifepristone, which has killed millions of babies, dozens of women and injured countless thousands.

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Makary pointed out a real concern among some doctors: “if this drug is in the wrong hands, it could be used for coercion.”

Signaling his pro-life stance, on June 24, 2022, Dr. Makary marked the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision by speaking with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson about abortion from a pro-life medical perspective.

Dr. Makary affirmed in the interview that beginning around 15 weeks, the baby in utero can feel pain and will react to the instruments of the abortionist.

“Somewhere between 15 and 20 weeks, babies will actually resist the instruments of abortion,” he said.

Dr. Makary said in the Fox News interview that he witnessed an abortion during his training as a medical student and saw the baby avoid the instruments of the abortionist.

“It doesn’t matter which side you protest on around this issue, if you see the actual images of what’s happening and a baby resisting an abortion, it’ll weigh on your conscience,” he told Tucker Carlson.

In the interview, Dr. Makary also drew attention to the contradictory approach within medicine to babies who have reached the age of viability. Pointing out that Roe v. Wade was based on viability, Dr. Makary noted that advances in medical technology have pushed the age of viability earlier in pregnancy.

He also pointed out that babies at the same gestational age are treated in opposite ways, “based on circumstances.”

“Ironically, we sometimes do fetal surgery on a baby inside the womb of the mother to save the baby’s life, and yet at the same age in other settings, surgical instruments are used to abort a baby,” he said.

Dr. Makary lamented the climate of capitulation and silence that surrounds abortion within the medical field.

“Today, you can barely talk about it,” he said. “Nurses can get fired if they don’t participate, medical students are ridiculed, most of the professional medical associations have taken a political stand now supporting abortion right up until the third trimester.”

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