Bad Choice: What's the Matter with Kathleen Sebelius? (Politics‪)‬

BY NOMINATING Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the Obama administration has chosen its first battle in the culture wars. Picking a pro-choice Catholic who has been barred from receiving communion by the Church would stir headlines at any time. But Sebelius's pro-choice record is uniquely disturbing. She is a major beneficiary of the abortion industry's financial largesse and a protector of its political status. Despite her efforts to guard abortion providers from prosecution, Sebelius's confirmation hearings will probably occur at the same time that George Tiller, a notorious late-term abortionist and Sebelius patron, sits for the first post-Roe trial for breaking laws restricting abortion. Sebelius's nomination has energized the pro-life movement and exposed endemic corruption within Kansas's legal system. Lance Kinzer, the head of the Kansas house judiciary committee, says, "In the Sebelius years, Kansas has been a circus on the abortion issue."