A day after the Senate Finance Committee advanced Kathleen
Sebelius' nomination to become secretary of health and human
services, a group of leading conservatives call for her rejection
by the full Senate:
Tony Perkins, President, Family Research
Council
Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women for
America
James Dobson, Focus on the Family
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax
Reform
Brent Bozell, President, Media Research Center
Alfred Regnery, Publisher, American Spectator
Don Wildmon, President, American Family
Association
Majorie Dannenfelser, President, Susan B. Anthony
List
Richard Viguerie
David McIntosh, former U.S, Representative,
Indiana
To Members of the United States Senate:
We, as concerned Americans and leaders of a citizen based
conservative movement, call on you to oppose the nomination of
Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius's lack of integrity during the
nomination process, together with her extreme pro-abortion
record clearly demonstrate that she is unfit to serve as
secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Americans want and deserve better than a health care system run
by a politician with serious lapses of conscience and
integrity. We call on all senators who claim to uphold the
sanctity of life and the responsibility of the office of HHS to
oppose her confirmation.
Twice during her nomination Governor Sebelius has had to change
her testimony to conform to the facts. First, it was
disclosed that she had to correct three years worth of her
personal tax returns, and second it was disclosed that she had
received large sums – much more than she had initially told the
Senate – from late-term abortion providers. Both of these
unfortunate incidents have cast serious doubts on her
integrity.
Governor Sebelius is also an abortion radical. She is one
of the most fervent advocates for taxpayer-funded and late-term
abortions in American politics. Americans do not want an
uncompromising and anti-life partisan politicizing one of the
most important offices in the United States government.
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Failed to pay taxes. Governor Sebelius
found it necessary to correct three years worth of tax
returns, inform the Senate of this serious financial
oversight and subsequently paid, some $7000 in back taxes.
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Failed to disclose campaign contributions.
Gov. Sebelius initially failed to disclose to senators the
$35,000 in personal and PAC contributions she received from
notorious late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and
another $200,000 that Tiller donated to ProKanDo, a political
action committee (PAC) dedicated to defeating her pro-life
gubernatorial opponent.
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Built her political career on abortion
money. Not only did Governor Sebelius receive
significant money from Kansas abortion and late-term abortion
clinics, but she also vetoed every piece of legislation that
would have provided even the most minimal oversight over
these providers, putting the health of thousands of Kansas
women at risk.
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Advocates taxpayer funded abortions. Gov.
Sebelius favors publicly-funded abortion at home and abroad
-- a stance that places her far outside the mainstream. In
doing so she also makes a mockery of the millions of
struggling working families who will scrape and save to pay
their taxes during this recession, only to see their
hard-earned dollars pay for abortions on demand.
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Takes a position far outside the mainstream in
support of late-term abortions. Although 80%
of Americans disapprove of late-term abortion, Gov. Sebelius
advocates it relentlessly. Wichita is known as the late-term
abortion capital of the Midwest despite its fairly
restrictive laws, thanks to Gov. Sebelius's refusal to
enforce the will of the people. With such an utter disregard
for the position of an overwhelming majority of Americans,
Gov. Sebelius is clearly too ideological and partisan to
oversee the health care of 300 million people.
If confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Governor Sebelius would be in charge of one of the largest
government cabinet departments, with one of the largest
budgets, and which affects virtually every American
citizen. Given her propensity for abortion radicalism,
her failure to pay her own taxes and her demonstrated lack of
integrity, she will be a divisive force in this important
office.
We call on Senators of both parties to oppose the nomination of
Gov. Sebelius.
