Posted on 11/17/2006 5:01:30 PM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, November 17, 2006 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - President George W. Bush has appointed a physician with close ties to the pro-life movement to supervise federal family-planning programs.
The President has named Dr. Eric Keroack to be the assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. In that post he will supervise the disbursement of $283 million in annual federal grants to family-planning programs.
Keroack, a Massachusetts gynecologist, has been a pioneer in the use of ultrasound technology in crisis-pregnancy centers. He has developed a national reputation in the pro-life movement for his work in persuading women not to have abortions, and in discouraging pre-martial sexual activity.
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Keroack had served as a medical director for crisis-pregnancy centers operated by A Women's Concern, a Massachusetts non-profit group that operates several crisis-pregnancy centers in the Boston area. The group-- which has won state and federal grants for abstinence education-- takes a firm stand against family-planning programs that encourage contraceptive use. The group's web site proclaims:
"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."
This is going to drive the left crazy!
I read somewhere that they are already going nuts.
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Give'em hell Doc.
Ah, the irony of it all. (He, he!)
Yes, but to hear many FReepers, Bush is a liberal. This must be just another dastardly liberal trap!
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There IS hope...
Some people like to be black and white on every single thing. I don't. And life is not black and white, no matter you would like it to be. I think Bush is an example of a moderate conservative. He has both 'liberal' and 'conservative' elements in his policies. On balance, he's more on conservative side.
Dunno if you saw this, but my God, my God....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740594/posts
I've been telling you guys victories and more victories are coming - we grow stronger every day and they get weaker. Woo-hoo! Prolife baby!
Agreed. He's done some things I disagree with strongly, but on defense, taxes, abortion policy and SCOTUS choices, the four biggies for me, I am very pleased.
I was NOT a big supporter of President Bush when he ran in 2000 --I still remembered Dad, and would have voted for Pat Buchanan if he had been on the ballot in Michigan. On the other hand, I think he has done most things right --this included.
The rest of the republicans...not so much.
Fixed =D
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Oh man...how do you get to that point? That man deserves a fair trial followed by a first class hanging.
Great pick by the Prez!
Bears repeating. Wow!
Peoples' ideologies only look gray from a distance. Zoom in close enough and the individual elements are black or white, and frequently contradictory.
Bush has finally done something useful.
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