A Pro-Life Nightmare: Daschle Appointed as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services

The appointment of Tom Daschle places a strong "pro-choice" leader at the helm of the agency that would oversee the possible Freedom of Choice Act.
By Randy Sly
11/20/2008
Catholic Online

WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - President-elect Obama has made his choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services – former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle. He had been a close advisor to President - Elect Obama during the presidential campaign and had recently written a book on his proposals to improve health care in America called "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis."

“Of all the proposals that Obama wants to enact, health care requires the most input and tough negotiations,” one of the Democratic officials told Politico.com. “No one knows the House and Senate like Tom Daschle.”

The Department of Health and Human Services, Daschle’s new assignment, is the agency responsible for abortion policy. Should the Freedom of Choice Act be ratified, this is the department through which it would be administered. With Dascle's appointment it will be headed by a strong pro-choice supporter who also describes himself as a Catholic. the rest

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