President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to be the next Surgeon General of the United States; see President Trump Nominates New Surgeon General. The Surgeon General’s role is mainly that of national cheerleader on health issues, in addition to commanding the 6,000-member Commissioned Corps or the US Public Health Service. While Nesheiwat has ample credentials to serve as Surgeon General — she is a board-certified physician in family medicine, and her experience as a FoxNews medical contributor shows she can handle herself in the spotlight — her performance during the COVID scare calls into question her independence from the medical establishment and her faithfulness to basic constitutional principles.
Nesheiwat is a pro-abort. She’s not merely a “let the states sort it out” like Trump, and like me, for the most part, she is a…