Right-Wing Goes After Sebelius’ Pro-Choice Record
Right-Wing Goes After Sebelius’ Pro-Choice Record
Right-wing fringe groups are trying to turn a debate about health care reform into a culture war. They’ve launched a campaign against HHS designee Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS), arguing that her appointment “is a threat to the health and well-being of our country“:
- She has had a close personal and financial association with the nation’s most infamous abortion doctor, George Tiller, who specializes in late-term abortions.” [Family Research Council]
- Sebelius honored Tiller and his entire abortion clinic staff at the Governor’s mansion in April 2007. Tiller has contributed thousands of dollars to Sebelius and to her PAC. [The Liberty Council]
- With Obama’s appointment of Gov. Sebelius to the Department of Health and Human Services, he might as well be appointing George Tiller. [Operation Rescue]
- Sebelius, governor of Kansas – the late-term abortion capital of the world – is a threat to the health and well-being of our country and her appointment must be stopped. [American Life League]
While Sebelius vetoed legislation that would have allowed a woman’s relatives to sue an abortion provider, and bills that violated women’s privacy, she has “worked to reduce the number of abortions by supporting expanded prenatal care and adoption incentives.” As Catholics United points out, “the governor has had disagreements over public policy with leaders in her Church. Yet their disagreement has never been over the morality of abortion, but over what prudential policy is best in dealing with abortion in Kansas.”
Indeed, abortion rates declined 10 percent during Sebelius’ first three years as governor and Americans United for Life has even ranked Kansas as the 14th best state for Defending Life in 2009. As for her George Tiller connections, those too are overstated. Tiller and his staff won a dinner with Sebelius “in a fund raising auction.” Sebelius “has not taken financial contributions from Tiller as a gubernatorial candidate or as governor” and even appointed the Attorney General who is looking into allegations that Tiller did not properly fill out abortion paperwork.
None of this is an issue, and it shouldn’t be a big concern during confirmation. It’s just a fund raising tactic for the Right.
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All Catholics should fight against the hypocrisy of the catholic boys club of Priests and Bishops who wear dresses I mean frocks and whose institution, the priesthood, has been a harbor of sin and crime for pedophiles. Hey the Catholics and all the other sanctioned religions think they are selling THE tickets to heaven get off of it. Where’s your copy of the TEN Commandments that says under THY SHALT NOT KILL in small print, it’s OK when an elected public servant ( read George W Bush) LIES to get permission to invade a country and order soldiers to murder and be murdered all for his lies upon lies upon lies and to murder citizens of a nation who did NOTHING to the USA. Where is your outrage!! Anyone who supported the BUSH presidency or this invasion of IRAQ should also be losing their right to take communion, the body of CHRIST, because they have caused the murder of thousands. NO man has a right to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body, especially not some so called celibate Priest or Bishop or Pope.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:06 pmThanks for calling attention to these specious attacks, Igor. You’re right that this is a fundraising tactic, but I’ll take it another step back — this is also about proving that they’re not totally irrelevant.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:17 pmI think this AmTaliban screechfest is going to be about as effective as ex-Senator Liddy Dole’s “Yikes, my opponent pals around with atheists” campaign last November.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:53 pmSO which one of you liberals is going to speak up for the ‘attacks’ on a pre-born daughter from her desperate scared and confused mother? Oh that’s rights YOU don’t mind paying your tax money for abortions! $330 M per year of TAX PAYER money goes to a private company to kill babies!
You then must also support the RACIST agenda from the DECADES of DOCUMENTED racist foundations of Planned Parenthood- the nation’s largest abortion mill.
Liberals hate negroes now apparently, enough to kill them in their wombs at four times the rate of whites. That’s what George Tiller does- even AFTER birth! And Sebelius approved this barbaric practice of born-alive abortions- as did OBAMA HIMSELF in one of his few votes that wasn’t just “present”.
Since when has Obama ever tried to appoint someone who was not a tax cheat or radically pro-murder to a position of power over ALL Americans?
Wouldn’t a more balanced person be ideal for the job?
You sad ignorant liberal-Democrats just won’t give up on your attacks of people of faith will you?
When your selfish and irresponsible lifestyles lead you to an early trauma, you had better pray that the doctor you get doesn’t share your lack of respect for HUMAN DIGNITY as you do… or you’ll become dead really fast just like the babies Sebelius has endorsed to die! WAKE UP and take your heads out of your a$$es!
March 5th, 2009 at 9:25 am