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Tuesday, March 3,
2009
Derrick Jones, (202) 626-8825
mediarelations@nrlc.org
SEBELIUS
NOMINATION CONTINUES
OBAMA ABORTION AGENDA
WASHINGTON – The
following statement may be attributed to David N.
O'Steen, Ph.D., executive director of the National Right
to Life Committee:
The selection of an extreme
pro-abortionist as head of the Department of Health and
Human Services is tragic, but not surprising. Viewed in
the context of Barack Obama's first month in office, his
nomination of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
represents a continuation of the extreme abortion agenda
Obama hopes to enact.
Already he has rescinded the Mexico
City Policy, allowing taxpayer funds to go to
organizations that perform and promote abortion
overseas. And the Administration is set to take action
this week to rescind a regulation that enforces federal
laws protecting the conscience rights of doctors and
other health care providers.
Governor Sebelius is one in a line of
pro-abortion activists appointed to positions in the
Obama administration: Dawn Johnsen, former legal
director of NARAL, was named as assistant attorney
general for the Office of Legal Counsel; Ellen Moran,
former executive director of the pro-abortion EMILY's
List, was appointed White House communications director;
and Melody Barnes, Obama's domestic policy advisor,
previously served on the boards of both EMILY's List and
the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Indeed, many of Obama's appointees to
key public policy and health-related positions look like
a "Who's Who" of the Abortion Industry focused on
promoting and protecting abortion on demand.
The National Right to Life Committee is
the nation's largest pro-life group with affiliates in
all 50 states and over 3,000 local chapters nationwide.
National Right to Life works through legislation and
education to protect those threatened by abortion,
infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide.
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