Pro-Choice Obama Exploits Sebelius' Catholicism

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." (More abortion stories.)