Kathleen Sebelius incurs wrath of anti-choice groups in Kansas; they vow to fight her appointment

[proud2BlibKansan]

By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist

Single-issue anti-abortion groups vow to fight an effort to appoint Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as U.S. health and human services secretary, the AP is reporting.

No surprise there. Sebelius is public enemy No. 1 among the Kansas anti-abortion activists because she consistently blocks efforts to place restrictions on clinics, including the one in Wichita that performs late-term abortions.

They can huff and puff about Sebelius but her appointment to the federal post would likely have no impact at all on abortion policy.

Barack Obama supports keeping abortion legal and anyone he appoints to the HHS job isn't likely to favor onerous restrictions on clincs.

The opposition to her getting the job is more revenge-based than practical. But these are people who look at the world through a single prism. Fortunately, the people who will be making the choice are also thinking about things like health care.

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/3874?destination=node%2F3874


Abortion foes vow to fight a Sebelius nomination
http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1058773.html

[Why Syzygy]

1. Yeah. I guess McCain offered them Roe v Wade,

which was outright bogus posturing. I don't think he would have. I'm really sorry these people feel this way.

If they invested their energy to advance more equitable pay and housing, universal sex-ed, and decreasing violence, for example, some percentage of women facing abortion might make a different choice.