Contraception, abortion foe to head family-planning office

[madinmaryland]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/17/family.planning.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration, to the consternation of its critics, has picked the medical director of an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion to lead the office that oversees federally funded teen pregnancy, family planning and abstinence programs.

The appointment of Eric Keroack, a Marblehead, Massachusetts, obstetrician and gynecologist, to oversee the federal Office of Population Affairs and its $283 million annual budget has angered family-planning advocates.

Keroack currently is medical director of A Woman's Concern, a Christian nonprofit. The Dorchester, Massachusetts-based organization runs six centers in the state that offer free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds and counseling.

It also works to "help women escape the temptation and violence of abortion," according to its statement of faith. And it opposes contraception, saying its use increases out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion rates.

OMG!! What is going on? The guy will gut the entire department.

:grr:

[lapfog_1]

1. So... anyone here still think this guy (Bush) is a pretend fundie

that simply panders to the "base" when he needs them? Remember all those stories about how the White House would make fun of the fundies after they left the White House... well, KKKarl and Scooter and Cheney might have joked about them, but W is a True Believer(tm). After the election he has not a reason in the world to pander to the fundies, he has every reason NOT to piss off the incoming majority party. Think he cares? Here's your sign!