Kennedy’s Bold Shake-Up: Two Vaccine Skeptic OB-GYNs Join CDC Panel to Rethink Pregnant Women’s Immunization
‘We don’t really know the long-term effects of all these shots on American women and their unborn children.’ That’s what Dr. Adam Urato, one of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s two newest appointees to the CDC’s vaccine powerhouse, told a national audience this week. The news has the health establishment rattled-and conservative families nationwide breathing a cautious sigh of relief. Is this the beginning of true transparency on vaccines for pregnant women, or another chapter in a battle over basic parental rights?
New Conservative Firepower Hits CDC: Vaccine Panel Now Includes Outspoken Critics
In a move shaking the medical establishment, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed two highly controversial OB-GYNs, Dr. Adam Urato and Dr. Kimberly Biss, to the CDC’s influential Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Both physicians have long questioned the medical dogma on vaccines for pregnant women, particularly with respect to the COVID-19 injections, flu, RSV, and Tdap shots routinely pushed on expectant mothers. The move comes as ACIP undertakes a critical review of the recommended vaccines for pregnancy-a review sources say was demanded by President Trump himself after mounting grassroots concerns about women’s health and medical freedom.
Dr. Kimberly Biss went viral last year for her outspoken opposition to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations during pregnancy, and for warning about potential impacts on fertility and miscarriage rates. She’s no shrinking violet-in fact, she has self-identified as an ‘anti-vaxxer’-and has championed broader patient choice over federal mandates. At her side, Dr. Adam Urato is equally forthright, openly raising questions about adverse fetal effects from vaccine regimens most health authorities insist are safe. Both bring decades of clinical experience-as well as a willingness to defy bureaucratic groupthink-to a panel that has been accused, for years, of rubber-stamping Big Pharma’s bottom line over mothers’ concerns.
‘CDC & ACOG recommend 4 vaccines in pregnancy: Flu, Tdap, RSV, & COVID. My patients often ask: “How do we know that all these vaccines won’t have adverse effects on my baby & me?” The answer is: “We don’t.”‘ – Dr. Adam Urato
Right now, millions of American parents are watching closely. Increasingly, conservative families are skeptical-if not downright opposed-to blanket recommendations about what goes into a mother’s arm during pregnancy. This latest personnel shift signals that, finally, their voices might have a seat at the table.
Establishment Backlash: Media Meltdown and Medical Elites in a Panic
The legacy media and medical institutions wasted no time unleashing a storm of outrage. ‘Dangerous anti-vaccine rhetoric,’ howled the commentary section at The Washington Post, echoing the frustration of elite hospital boards and public health lobbyists. Organizations like the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) rushed out grim press releases expressing fear over public ‘misinformation’-their code word for any skepticism of the status quo. But for everyday Americans, these critics read as tone-deaf defenders of a failed system.
Consider the Washington beltway outrage in context. The last year ripped open a national debate on vaccine schedules, medical mandates, and especially on what we really know about the long-term effects of these shots for mothers and their children. Many red-state governors and state legislatures are moving to strip away once-sacred vaccine requirements, citing new data and gaps in federal safety monitoring. Into this firestorm, HHS Secretary Kennedy-heir to a family legacy of challenging government power-has repeatedly declared, “We want gold-standard science, not flimsy consensus.” His overhaul of ACIP has not gone unnoticed.
Deputy HHS Secretary and Acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill said, ‘President Trump asked us to bring the childhood immunization schedule in line with gold-standard science. ACIP is doing just that. Our new ACIP members have the clinical expertise to make decisions driven by evidence, not dogma.’
It’s not just political. Both Dr. Urato and Dr. Biss boast impressive academic resumes-including Harvard, Tufts, and major regional hospitals. Dr. Urato has published peer-reviewed work questioning the speed and rigor of vaccine trials for pregnant women. Dr. Biss, for her part, has led hospital OB/GYN boards and overseen covid-era infection protocols in one of Florida’s largest health systems. Their record? Unquestionable. Their willingness to speak up? Unmatched. That’s exactly what worries legacy medical institutions, who have grown accustomed to panelists who parrot the party line.
Background: A CDC in Crisis, and Why This Matters for Every American Mom
If many Americans are stunned by this conservative, evidence-driven turn at the CDC, they shouldn’t be. This shakeup was years in the making. In June 2025, Kennedy cleaned house by firing all 17 previous ACIP members-a dramatic but necessary move, supporters say, to root out conflicts of interest and restore faith in federal vaccine policymaking. The establishment’s hand-wringing only intensified since then, with ASCP and similar organizations claiming a ‘risk to public health’ and warning about so-called misinformation. Yet, the facts on the ground remain: parents are worried, adverse event reports are up, and federal medical recommendations carry less trust than at any time in history.
Dr. Urato’s own background includes close ties with FDA insiders like Tracy Beth Høeg, the acting director now serving as the FDA’s representative to ACIP. This network signals a willingness to look critically at the research, confer with fellow independent experts, and resist the bureaucratic inertia that too often stifles whistleblowers. Dr. Kimberly Biss’s leadership at Bayfront Health in Florida, paired with her outspoken medical independence, rounds out a duo that’s sure to clash-publicly and productively-with entrenched government positions.
‘I have seen too many rushed studies, too many mandates with not enough science, and too many women scared to speak up about their own reactions. We need a panel that listens to them first-and that’s why I agreed to serve,’ Dr. Biss told local media.
Ultimately, this new ACIP could represent a major turning point for CDC vaccine policy-finally introducing much-needed scrutiny, especially for America’s mothers. For years, only one side has held the microphone. Thanks to President Trump’s courage in backing this overhaul and Kennedy’s willingness to buck the cartel, that age is over. The panel will meet in open session later this month to review flu, Tdap, RSV, and COVID shot policies for expectant mothers-and if Dr. Biss and Dr. Urato have anything to say about it, the gold-standard of real science and parental choice will finally return to American public health.
Conservatives are right to watch the proceedings closely. The 2026 midterms are only months away, and parents of all stripes want to know: will Washington finally listen to science, or fall back to the failed playbook of mandates and censorship? At least, under Trump and Kennedy, the CDC can no longer pretend it hears no dissent.
