Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is Unfit to Serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services
WASHINGTON, March 2 /
Christian Newswire/ -- President Barack Obama's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services continues to extend his radical abortion agenda. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has close ties with late-term abortionist George Tiller, who currently faces multiple criminal charges for late-term abortions. 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 Bluestem Fund. While receiving large contributions from Tiller, in 2003 Sebelius vetoed legislation designed to regulate the health and safety of abortion clinics, including Tiller's. The filthy abortion clinics continued to operate until 2005, when the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts revoked the medical license of Krishna Rajanna, a Kansas City abortionist who ran a rat-infested abortion mill.
Sebelius was vehemently opposed to then-Attorney General Phil Kline and handpicked Paul Morrison to run against him. Morrison promised to cease investigations into the abortion clinics and received soft campaign contributions from Tiller. Morrison had to later resign, when a sex and abortion corruption scandal became public. Morrison was having a sexual affair with an employee in the Johnson County DA's office, where Kline began working after he left the Attorney General's office. Morrison was trying to get the employee to impede the county's investigation into abortion clinic practices.
In 2007, Planned Parenthood threw a birthday party for Sebelius, during which the CEO, Peter Brownlee, led a conga-like dance in her honor. Brownlee's abortion clinic was later charged with 107 counts of illegal late-term abortions. Sebelius appointed militant abortion clinic "escort" John Carmichael, who worked with Tiller's PAC, ProKanDo, to the Human Rights Commission. Ten months later he had to withdraw his name. Sebelius also appointed Howard Ellis to the State Board of Healing Arts after he had surrendered his license in Missouri rather than face disciplinary action. Two months later he resigned, after he was charged by the Board with attempting to persuade a physician to falsify medical records.
Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann publically admonished Sebelius to refrain Holy Communion until she took "the necessary steps for amendment of her life, which would include a public repudiation of her previous efforts and actions in support of laws and policies sanctioning abortion."
Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: "Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is unfit to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. She is so blinded by her extreme commitment to abortion that she cannot be trusted to act in the best interest of those she should protect. Having her serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services would be like the proverbial fox guarding the hen house."
