WP: Bush Pick for Family-Planning Post Is Criticized

[kskiska]

Friday, November 17, 2006; A01

The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."

Eric Keroack, medical director for A Woman's Concern, a nonprofit group based in Dorchester, Mass., will become deputy assistant secretary for population affairs in the next two weeks, department spokeswoman Christina Pearson said yesterday.

Keroack, an obstetrician-gynecologist, will advise Secretary Mike Leavitt on matters such as reproductive health and adolescent pregnancy. He will oversee $283 million in annual family-planning grants that, according to HHS, are "designed to provide access to contraceptive supplies and information to all who want and need them with priority given to low-income persons."

(snip)

The Keroack appointment angered many family-planning advocates, who noted that A Woman's Concern supports sexual abstinence until marriage, opposes contraception and does not distribute information promoting birth control at its six pregnancy service centers in eastern Massachusetts.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111601929.html

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. I remember when impeached governor of Arizona, Evan Mecham

... tried to appoint a Mormon bishop to head the state liquor board. :rofl:

Ack! Looking at Evan Mecham's entry at the Wikipedia, I just realized how much he looks like another politician who does the same stupid things and deserves the same fate.

[Erika]

2. The GOP wants women barefoot and pregnant

Not unlike the Taliban. Contraception demeans women? The GOP need to be told where to shove their radical theocratic right wing propoganda and to knock off their attacks on women.

[Epiphany4z]

3. does Bush just

like pissing the world off or what?

[Erika]

5. Bush doesn't have the slightest tie with reality of

American citizens, especially women. Nor does he have any intellectually curiousity.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Another not-the-Onion post! nt

[Straight Shooter]

6. Leave it to bush to appoint a man to make decisions that affect women.

And the hits just keep on comin' from the most incompetent, out-of-touch administration in history.

[maddezmom]

7. kick

[madinmaryland]

8. Contraception, abortion foe to head family-planning office

:wtf:

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.

..snip

OMG, what is going on?

[gollygee]

9. This is the Bush method of operation

find the person who is most likely to do a bad job, or is most opposed to whatever he is going to head, and voila you have your leader!

[azurnoir]

11. 2 more years of

"keep your legs crossed" as contraception and sex education. If that had or does work we never would have had the "60's sexual revolution and the world population would be about 1/4 of what it is.

[alarimer]

10. I really, really hate these people

Damn these assholes to hell. I actually cannot think of enough bad words to call them.

Is there anything we can do about this?

[mnhtnbb]

12. Typical Bushevism. I wonder what contraceptive methods the twins use?

[gollygee]

16. They're not married.

I'm sure they're waiting.
















:D

[mnhtnbb]

30. LOL!

[sutz12]

13. Where is this man's irony detecter?

A fundie from Marblehead, Mass.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Caoimhe]

14. Another IDIOTIC appointment by the IDIOT IN CHIEF

Here's some contraception that's not demeaning to women in the least:

[madinmaryland]

15. BTW, that is a funny toon!!

[central scrutinizer]

17. Geez, what's next? An Arabian horse expert to head FEMA?

:sarcasm:

[Akoto]

18. Nobody can possibly be surprised by this.

We're talking about the administration that appointed a horse judge as the head of FEMA, and a Yosemite Sam impersonator as our ambassador to the UN.

[Hieronymus]

26. Unfortunately, his appointment requires no congressional

approval. Write the White House.:dunce:

[PuppyBismark]

19. Contraception, abortion foe to head Federal family-planning office

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.

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

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Just cuz they SAY that contraception increases abortion doesn't make it true

This is utter nonsense. Another fundy who doesn't care about women. How lovely of him to choose a profession where he could exercise control over them.

[ashling]

23. this is a

contramisconception
:rofl:
I crack myself up!
:rofl:

[silverojo]

25. "ContraMISconception"

Good one!

Remember the sit-ins of the Sixties? I think we need to have a similar protest...we should all get together and have a f*ck-in on Pennsylvania Avenue. Everybody having safe sex...let's make this the biggest orgy in the history of mankind!!

TROJANS FOR EVERYBODY!!

[xxqqqzme]

21. Just can't let go of that

War on Women can they?

[Mz Pip]

22. Gotta find some way

of punishing them for voting for the Democrats this time.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[sutz12]

24. Anyone else catch the irony here?

A fundie from Marblehead, Mass.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[superconnected]

27. WTF? I keep forgetting people this backward exist in America.

[PassingFair]

28. Can you say Catholic Vote?

This has gotta be pay-back for work on "gay marriage"
ballot initiatives.

Him "Chief" We "Squaw"

[stanwyck]

29. Hey, this guy IS an improvement

over his appointment of a veterinarian to oversee women's reproductive health.

[colorado_ufo]

31. Almost forgot that one!

Spot on.

[depakid]

32. The Republican war on contraception continues

Why ANY woman would ever vote Republican just boggles the mind.

[Zero Division]

33. Anti-contraceptive? Bush to the reasonable majority: F**k you!

Talk about pandering to a tiny minority of opinion. Seriously, I can't even believe that many Republicans are actually against contraceptives.

Edited to add this hilarious find: http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/11/bush_appointee_.html

Dr. Keroack told an abstinence leadership conference that sex causes brain damage.

According to Dr. K's CracKpot Theory, "positive social interaction" causes the brain to release oxytocin, which enables you to fall in love. But be careful--sex with too many people is literally mind-blowing because you use up all your oxytocin. Then you can never really love anyone.

[Vinca]

34. What is wrong with these people?

I can't think of a better way to reduce abortions than to distribute contraception. If the fundie left thinks their young people are abstaining, I've got a bridge to sell them.