Meet the Trump surgeon general nominee who kept her baby despite an unplanned pregnancy as a teen

In this roundup of pro-life and abortion-related news you may have missed, the surgeon general nominee as a teen chose life; Oklahoma criminalizes the distribution of abortion drugs.

President Donald Trumpʼs nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier, kept her son, Nick, when she became pregnant unexpectedly at age 17.

Saphier, a radiologist who specializes in treating breast cancer, earned her medical degree and completed a Mayo Clinic fellowship after giving birth to her son in high school.

Saphier, a practicing Catholic, has shared that she had a deep connection to her Catholic faith while she was pregnant as a teen, even though she faced many challenges because she kept her son, even being asked to stop attending the teen Mass in her area.

“I lost a lot of friends when I made the decision to have the baby,” she recalled in a CBN News interview about her pregnancy.

“I was reading my teen Bible a ton during that time and I was trying to draw strength from my Bible,” Saphier said.

Her son would go on to be present at all of her graduation ceremonies going forward, and as an adult, went to flight school.

The announcement came at the end of April after Trump announced he was withdrawing the nomination of Dr. Casey Means, whom many pro-life activists saw as not solid on pro-life issues.

Live Action President and Founder Lila Rose celebrated Saphier in a post on X after the appointment, calling her “inspiring.”

The National Right to Life Committee called Saphier an “excellent choice,” noting that her story makes the appointment “especially meaningful.”

Spokesperson Raimundo Rojas noted how Saphier “has spoken openly about the fear, uncertainty, judgment, and pressure that surrounded that moment [pregnancy].”

“Many young women in that situation hear one message from the culture: abortion will fix this. Motherhood will ruin your future. Your child stands between you and your dreams,” Rojas said. “Dr. Saphier chose life. She chose her son. She chose courage. She chose what the culture deems the harder road, and that road did not destroy her future. It helped shape it.”

Oklahoma criminalizes distribution of abortion drugs

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law a bill that criminalizes the distribution of abortion drugs in the state.

The law makes it a felony to provide abortion drugs to women knowing they are seeking abortion. Violators may be fined up to $100,000 and/or receive 10 years in prison.

The law does not apply to drugs used to treat ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages.

The measure, authored by state Rep. Denise Crosswhite Hader, R-Piedmont, and state Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant, will go into effect 90 days after lawmakers end the legislative session.

Oklahoma law protects unborn children from abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with an exception if the mother’s life is at risk.

Kentucky judge strikes down state’s definition of unborn children as human beings

A circuit court struck down part of Kentucky’s pro-life law that defined human life as beginning at conception.

The law had defined a human being as “an individual living member of the species homo sapiens throughout the entire embryonic and fetal stages of the unborn child from fertilization to full gestation and childbirth.”

The case is related to the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Because of the judge’s ruling, unborn babies will no longer be considered human beings and IVF will no longer be in a legal gray area in the state.

IVF is a fertility treatment opposed by the Catholic Church in which doctors fuse sperm and eggs to create human embryos and implant them in the mother’s womb. To maximize efficiency, doctors create excess human embryos and routinely destroy undesired embryos.

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