Ambassador Wendy Sherman, who served as President Obama’s under secretary of state for political affairs from 2011 to 2015, is not qualified to serve as our next deputy secretary of state.
Sherman’s appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Wednesday made this abundantly clear.
In her confirmation hearings, the ambassador dodged substantive questions on her role in failed foreign policies, including the disastrous Iran nuclear deal that she helped negotiate. This alone should be disqualifying, but for anyone familiar with her past work, there is another enormous reason for concern: Sherman’s radical position on abortion.
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The story begins in the early 1990s, when Sherman served as one of the first directors of EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest pro-abortion political action committee. Her time in leadership saw the organization grow significantly and expand abortion advocacy in national politics.
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That on its own should cause Senate Republicans, and any senator who values the sanctity of life, to think twice about her nomination.
Sherman’s abortion advocacy has extended well beyond our own borders. While serving in the Clinton administration’s State Department, she helped to advance efforts to advocate abortion access around the world.
Referring to a United Nations program on women, she wrote, “Our intent… was to support reproductive choice. As a matter of principle, we believe that abortion should be safe, legal and rare. We believe that women should be provided the means to prevent unwanted pregnancies.”
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Of course, for many Democrats, “safe, legal and rare” has given way to “unlimited abortion, no questions asked,”or, worse yet, the actual celebration of tragedy, as seen in the social media campaign to “Shout your Abortion.” Wendy Sherman is no bystander in this movement to normalize abortion as…
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