Obama Names Abortion Extremist to HHS; Media Silent
3/4/2009
Back during confirmation hearings in 2001 for former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson Dan Rather reminded Evening News viewers of Thompson’s “hardline anti-abortion stand.”
Eight years later, there’s a whitewash of President Barack Obama’s HHS’ nominee abortion record.
As a Democratic governor in red-state Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed several bills that would modestly restrict abortion. She supports late-term abortion. She’s socialized and taken money from well-known abortion extremists, and she has been unofficially ostracized from the Catholic Church for her stance. But you’d have to go out of your way to learn much about that from the news reports that followed the Feb. 28 announcement that Obama planned to nominate her as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This is a position that controls a $700 billion budget and, according to the New York Times, “would have considerable influence over government policy on abortion.”
Harold
ACGR's "News with Attitude" 