Bush picks anti-abortion, anti-contraception twit to head 'family planning' office

[Grimmlok]

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.

"A Woman's Concern is persuaded that the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human health and happiness," its contraception policy reads in part.

"The appointment of anti-birth control, anti-sex education advocate Dr. Eric Keroack to oversee the nation's family planning program is striking proof that the Bush administration remains dramatically out of step with the nation's priorities," Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement.

A message left with A Woman's Concern was not immediately returned Friday.

Keroack's appointment as deputy assistant secretary for population affairs does not require Senate confirmation. He is expected to start work in the next several weeks, Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Christina Pearson said.

The department's assistant secretary for health, Dr. John Agwunobi, cited Keroack's experience in working primarily with "women and girls in crisis" in lauding his appointment.

"He regularly speaks to youth audiences on sexual risk behaviors and has been nationally recognized for his work on preventing teen pregnancy," Agwunobi said.

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

Another winning move by the theocrats in washington!

[Martirio]

And it opposes contraception, saying its use increases out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion rates.

What kind of logic is that?

[Grimmlok]

It's not based on logic at all, in fact that little blurb is ass-backwards.

But neocons don't operate with logic. they operate with ideology.

What THEY THINK SHOULD HAPPEN versus WHAT ACTUALLY IS HAPPENING

[ohmygoodness]

Ladies, start sterilizing the coathangers!

[AliceInWonderland]

that doesn't even make sense! How can you even be into family-planning and not advocate the right to abortion?!

omg I am so angry right now, Bush is being a total asshole and such a baby just b/c his party lost power in congress! This is big 'fuck you' to women and unwanted children and dead newborns found in dumpsters everywhere and we're not going to stand for it!!!! Hillary in 2008 or bust!!!

[MrsDark]

If it weren't for birth control pills and condoms I'm betting Shrub would have been a grandaddy several times over by now! Unless the STD's rendered them (the bush twins) infertile first.

[AliceInWonderland]

^ OMGF U R soooooooo rite

and didnt they twins in the first place b/c his alcoholism/coke habit rendered him infertile so they had help from doctors and wound up with twins?!

[UndercoverGator]

Where else do you think Lil' Republicans come from? They don't spring fully formed from the loins of Dubya. They have to be bred and grown somewhere, where better than the loins of the sinfully wicked who've been forced into child breeding.

[ediebrooks]

This doesn't surprise me. Picking an anti-abortionist fits with Bush's upside-down logic.

[suede]

OBGYN's that can not separate their beliefs (religious or otherwise) with good medicine are dangerous.


http://www.awomansconcern.org/northshore

http://www.awomansconcern.org/norths...tions/abortion

http://www.hoperisingministry.org/

Their ways of directing people/women is clearly one sided.

This should be interesting....
Sigh

[MgMMD]

The fucker can kiss my hormonally imbalanced ass.

[Martirio]

Originally Posted by Martirio

What kind of logic is that?

Its lack of use also increases AIDS. And Americans wonder why they have no international credbility any more. Sorry, but this is behavior unbecoming to a so-called civilized country. Religion should not dicatate government policy. Period.

Umm, this is out of topic, but what happened to my message? All I said was "What kind of logic is that?". Then there's the addition not wrote by me, it says "last edited by Pacific Breeze".

[moomies]

I think there was a mistake made when replying maybe she hit edit by accident...

[pacific breeze]

Originally Posted by Martirio

What kind of logic is that?

Its lack of use also increases AIDS. And Americans wonder why they have no international credbility any more. Sorry, but this is behavior unbecoming to a so-called civilized country. Religion should not dicatate government policy. Period.

Originally Posted by Martirio

Umm, this is out of topic, but what happened to my message? All I said was "What kind of logic is that?". Then there's the addition not wrote by me, it says "last edited by Pacific Breeze".

I hit the edit button instead of the quote button. I wanted to quote what you said in my response. It was a mistake, which has now been corrected.

Thanks.