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Pro-Choice Obama Exploits Sebelius' Catholicism

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 11, 2009 7:52 AM CDT
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(Newser) – President Obama is enacting a ghastly brace of pro-choice policies, including weakening "conscience protections" for doctors and adopting the “most radical possible option” on stem cell research, Michael Gerson writes for the Washington Post. And enlisting a Catholic—HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius—to help implement his agenda “smacks of religious humiliation,” writes Gerson, “like asking a rabbi to serve pork roast.”

The pro-choice Sebelius paradoxically insists that “my Catholic faith teaches me that all life is sacred,” but her presence in the Cabinet "seems designed to provide religious cover," rages Gerson, a prominent evangelical. "If a politician believes life is sacred," he writes, "the destruction of more than a million lives a year cannot be merely one issue among many."

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2009, after President Barack Obama nominated her for Health and Human Services Secretary.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2009, after President Barack Obama nominated her for Health and Human Services Secretary.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
President Barack Obama looks watches as Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius speaks, March 2, 2009, after he nominated her for Health and Human Services Secretary.
President Barack Obama looks watches as Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius speaks, March 2, 2009, after he nominated her for Health and Human Services Secretary.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
President Barack Obama introduces Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Monday, March 2,2009, in the East Room of the White House.
President Barack Obama introduces Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Monday, March 2,2009, in the East Room of the White House.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
President Barack Obama walks behind Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in the East Room of the White House, March 2, 2009, as he nominated her for Health and Human Services Secretary.
President Barack Obama walks behind Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in the East Room of the White House, March 2, 2009, as he nominated her for Health and Human Services Secretary.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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If developing life is merely protoplasmic rubbish, it has the legal claims of a cyst or a toenail. But if a politician believes life is sacred, the destruction of a million lives a year cannot be merely one issue among many. - Michael Gerson

Sebelius and other pro-choice Catholic leaders are disagreeing with their church on a fundamental issue of justice — which is their right. It is also the right of their church to point out their incoherence. - Michael Gerson

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Forderon
Mar 11, 2009 3:12 AM CDT
Abolish religion. The Catholic church recently excommunicated the doctors who gave an abortion to a 9 YEAR OLD girl who was pregnant with her STEPFATHER'S TWINS after being RAPED by him. Abolish Catholocism. Abolish religion. And definitely abolish religion from government.

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