{"id":11588,"date":"2009-03-05T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dan_gilgoff_kathleen_sebelius_explains_being_a_pro_choice_pro_lifer\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T16:30:30","slug":"dan_gilgoff_kathleen_sebelius_explains_being_a_pro_choice_pro_lifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11588","title":{"rendered":"Dan Gilgoff: Kathleen Sebelius Explains Being a Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The title above is his, not mine&#8211;KSH<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life groups have come out in force against health and human services secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius over her pro-choice record. But Sebelius, the Roman Catholic governor of Kansas, has talked publicly about being a pro-choice pro-lifer. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from her 2006 address at the Kansans for Faithful Citizenship conference, in which she discussed abortion more than any other issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, no discussion of life and dignity of the human person can be complete without discussing the important issue of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>    My Catholic faith teaches me that all life is sacred, and personally I believe abortion is wrong. However, I disagree with the suggestion that criminalizing women and their doctors is an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the number of abortions in our nation.<\/p>\n<p>    There is another way. By working in support of the common good we can better protect human life and the dignity of all people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/god-and-country\/2009\/3\/2\/kathleen-sebelius-explains-being-a-pro-choice-pro-lifer.html\">Read it all<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/god-and-country\/2009\/03\/03\/kathleen-sebelius-and-the-fight-over-whos-truly-catholic.html\">make sure to read this follow up also<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title above is his, not mine&#8211;KSH. Pro-life groups have come out in force against health and human services secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius over her pro-choice record. But Sebelius, the Roman Catholic governor of Kansas, has talked publicly about being<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11588\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,104,96,154,151,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}