Advocates have been on guard against an executive order like the religious imposition measures modeled after the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and others sweeping through GOP-held state legislatures.
The Center for Medical Progress fought all the way to the Supreme Court in late 2015 to try to avoid handing over information containing the identity of “supporters."
Perez's support for reproductive rights comes as some in the Democratic Party, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have seemed willing to accept anti-choice candidates into the Democratic fold.
But Sanders is throwing his weight behind a Nebraska candidate whose record on reproductive rights is as clear as the connection between abortion access and poverty.
The medical community has characterized so-called abortion reversal as “junk science” and “tantamount to quackery," even as anti-choice legislators continue to back the concept.
"Medically unnecessary restrictions like admitting privileges and ambulatory surgical center requirements are state mandated laws thought up by extremists in Jefferson City," Planned Parenthood Great Plains officials said in a statement.
In particular, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is connected to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an extreme libertarian doctors group that espouses many of the lies about abortion safety long rejected by the medical and scientific communities.
Heath Mello has sponsored a range of anti-choice measures, including a 20-week abortion ban. He was previously endorsed by anti-choice group Nebraska Right to Life.
