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Take Action: Ask Senate Committee to Reject Daschle as Health Secretary

by Jennifer Mesko, editor

Nominee shares Obama's radical abortion views.

He voted to force taxpayers to fund abortions on military bases. He voted for a Senate resolution endorsing Roe v. Wade. And as Senate majority leader, he helped block votes on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and a ban on human cloning.

Former Sen. Tom Daschle supports expanding taxpayer funding of destructive embryonic stem-cell research. He's even been "disowned" by his Catholic bishop due to his strong pro-abortion stance.

And President-elect Barack Obama wants this man as his secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

On Thursday, the Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) Committee is scheduled to take up Daschle's nomination.

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