Both sides ramp up on Sebelius nomination for HHS Secretary
For the abortion industry, it’s all about the money. Read Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards’ email alert sent last night (click to enlarge)…
PP et al believe (with good reason) Kathleen Sebelius as HHS Secretary would stream abortion funding their way as part of universal health care.
Meanwhile, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins held a press conference outside infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller’s Wichita mill Sunday to spotlight Tiller’s association with the KS governor. Then Perkins filmed a 2:45 explanation of the ties…
FRC has an email prepared you can send to Senate President Harry Reid with the click of a button.
And pro-family power hitters sent a letter to all US senators yesterday:
James Dobson, Focus on the Family
Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council
Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women for America
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform
Brent Bozell, President, Media Research Center
Alfred Regnery, Publisher, American Spectator
Don Wildmon, President, American Family Association
Majorie Dannenfelser, President, Susan B. Anthony List
Richard Viguerie
David McIntosh, former U.S, Representative, Indiana
To Members of the United States Senate:
We, as concerned Americans and leaders of a citizen based conservative movement, call on you to oppose the nomination of Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of Health and Human Services….
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’s lack of integrity during the nomination process, together with her extreme pro-abortion record clearly demonstrate that she is unfit to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Americans want and deserve better than a health care system run by a politician with serious lapses of conscience and integrity. We call on all senators who claim to uphold the sanctity of life and the responsibility of the office of HHS to oppose her confirmation.
Twice during her nomination Governor Sebelius has had to change her testimony to conform to the facts. First, it was disclosed that she had to correct three years worth of her personal tax returns, and second it was disclosed that she had received large sums – much more than she had initially told the Senate – from late-term abortion providers. Both of these unfortunate incidents have cast serious doubts on her integrity.
Governor Sebelius is also an abortion radical. She is one of the most fervent advocates for taxpayer-funded and late-term abortions in American politics. Americans do not want an uncompromising and anti-life partisan politicizing one of the most important offices in the United States government.
Failed to pay taxes. Governor Sebelius found it necessary to correct three years worth of tax returns, inform the Senate of this serious financial oversight and subsequently paid, some $7000 in back taxes.
Failed to disclose campaign contributions. Gov. Sebelius initially failed to disclose to senators the $35,000 in personal and PAC contributions she received from notorious late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and another $200,000 that Tiller donated to ProKanDo, a political action committee (PAC) dedicated to defeating her pro-life gubernatorial opponent.
Built her political career on abortion money. Not only did Governor Sebelius receive significant money from Kansas abortion and late-term abortion clinics, but she also vetoed every piece of legislation that would have provided even the most minimal oversight over these providers, putting the health of thousands of Kansas women at risk.
Advocates taxpayer funded abortions. Gov. Sebelius favors publicly-funded abortion at home and abroad — a stance that places her far outside the mainstream. In doing so she also makes a mockery of the millions of struggling working families who will scrape and save to pay their taxes during this recession, only to see their hard-earned dollars pay for abortions on demand.
Takes a position far outside the mainstream in support of late-term abortions. Although 80% of Americans disapprove of late-term abortion, Gov. Sebelius advocates it relentlessly. Wichita is known as the late-term abortion capital of the Midwest despite its fairly restrictive laws, thanks to Gov. Sebelius’s refusal to enforce the will of the people. With such an utter disregard for the position of an overwhelming majority of Americans, Gov. Sebelius is clearly too ideological and partisan to oversee the health care of 300 million people.
If confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Governor Sebelius would be in charge of one of the largest government cabinet departments, with one of the largest budgets, and which affects virtually every American citizen. Given her propensity for abortion radicalism, her failure to pay her own taxes and her demonstrated lack of integrity, she will be a divisive force in this important office.
We call on Senators of both parties to oppose the nomination of Gov. Sebelius.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The obvious point I can see from this is abortion and euthanasia fit quit nicely into a socialized/ rationed healthcare system. It’s called cost containment.
Pro Life laborers MUST work to educate. Many people are not looking at the big picture. They think the only thing that will change if we get socialized healthcare is that we don’t have to pay..we will pay with substandard care, higher taxes and with our lives and those of an unborn generation!
I am really surprised they didn’t mention her inclination to let people die if their treatment would be too expensive.
I would think that would sway even some liberals, and it is certainly a pro-life issue–it’s a better argument than that she had to correct her taxes.
“..she will be a divisive force in this important office.”
..hmmm… talk about an understatement…
Of course pro aborts are worried about their “health care” being jeopardized by “anti choice extremists.”
The fact they are worried must mean the Sebelius nomination is not a sure thing after all.
This is the same Tony Perkins that gave an address to the Council of Conservative Citizens a known racist organization and who also used David Duke’s mailing list to generate campaign donations? And you talk about Obama palling around with terrorists…lol. You sure do know how to pick winners!
It’s getting to the point that being labelled a racist by a liberal is a badge of honour for any self-respecting conservative. The liberals generally have no logical arguments to make; they’re mostly violin-playing grasshoppers having an orgy around the great bonfire of Washington. Play now, pay later; have sex now, get day care (or abortion) later; give amnesty now, restrict freedoms later; lie now, lie again later. Lie anytime, anywhere! To anyone, with anyone!
I doubt that Tony Perkins has in any way advocated racism. And if he did, there are worse sins. For example, killing a human being because he is too small to defend himself is a worse sin than insulting a human being because he has a different complexion.
Yo La Tengo, I exaggerated about liberals. But I don’t think you used labels very prudently, either.
So Jon, White supremacy isnt terrorism? The KKK, lynchings, firebombing churches? Have you ever examined the C of CC website to see the terrorists that Tony P. hangs with? Or do you take good ‘ol boys at their word?