... One beneficiary of Kathleen Sebelius' good cheer toward abortionists was Krishna Rajanna, who owned a Topeka chop shop.
After it was discovered he kept a filthy mill with evidentiary photographs of a dead mouse in the hall and aborted babies in the refrigerator, the latter which staffers said they saw Rajanna eating in soup, legislators introduced clinic regulation legislation. Sebelius vetoed that twice....
All this information and more is waiting in the wings for Sebelius' confirmation hearing, but will it ever see the light of day?
Likely not, thanks to KS Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts....
But here is where Brownback in particular made a common pro-life politician's mistake, which too many pro-lifers accept: Casting dreams for what he could do for us tomorrow, Brownback didn't do the right thing today.
I don't care what pro-life politicians promise they will do for me tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. I only care what they do for me today. In fact, they're only where they are today because they cast dreams in a previous campaign to do something for me today....
Now to the damage abortion loving Sebelius could do as HHS secretary....
All the negative comments about the two Kansas Senators who support Gov. Sebelius are entirely misguided.
Christian leaders across the country have signed petitions in support of Gov. Sebelius for HHS Secretary:
http://faithinpubliclife.org/content/press/2009/03/top_christian_leaders_welcome.html
Senator Brownback has been among the most courageous voices against abortion. It's not as if though Obama was going to pick a pro lifer, right? Is anyone really surprised by the pick? The fact of the matter is that Obama won, and he is appointing someone who knows Kansas, and who cares about Kansas. Why is it such a mystery why he supports her?
People are so quick to point to political ambition as a reason for "selling one's soul", but the pro-life movement needs to not cannibalize our most talented and ambitious allies in Congress and the state governments for being so called "traitors". You would think he was holding fundraisers with Tiller! He's supporting a woman from his state who has reduced abortions in Kansas, and the pro life movement wants to pretend like Sam Brownback hasn't been a great ally?
So lets back off Brownback and Roberts a bit, okay? They're both allies and they have shown so many times in the past. Getting worked up about this and attacking our own is the worst thing conservatives need right now.
There were lots of religious people who supported slavery too. The people who signed that statement are their intellectual and moral decendants. They're also stupid.
They obsess that abortions have been reduced in Kansas. They've dropped in recent years all across America and it has nothing to do with the brutal convictions of the governor of Kansas.
"aborted babies in the refrigerator, the latter which staffers said they saw Rajanna eating in soup"
Why do I get the impression WND might be making a few things up?
I did some googling (details on my blog) - although I can find a few blogs claiming rumors about the fetus soup, the only sources any of them give are more blogs. I can't find a single reliable news source on the claim, so I am probably correct in saying that this was made up somewhere. It seems likely that WND, always very eager to believe the worst they hear about abortionists, repeated the dubious rumor without any attempt to verify it.
Rajanna had a clinic, and it was closed down for extreme violations of health codes. His license was suspended because of the violation of the legal standards for cleanliness in a medical facility. That much I could verify. As far as I can tell, he was just a negligent doctor. No significent evidence of fetus soup anywhere.
I found Sebelius's reason for the veto too - the reason she gave is that the laws in question were written to apply *only* to abortion clinics, not to any other form of surgery. She considered them an obvious attempt to raise the cost of abortion or to impose standards impossible to meet, rather than to improve medical standards, because if the intention was to improve medical standards overall they wouldn't be confined to abortion only.
Suricou: From the Lawrence Journal World, April 30, 2004 (http://is.gd/lZsh):
"In a police statement taken during a theft investigation at the clinic, an employee who was a suspect in the fraud told police that Rajanna had been seen putting a fetus in the microwave and stirring it in his lunch. No charges were filed against the employee or Rajanna."
It's two in the morning now, but I shall update my blog accordingly tomorrow.