Bush appoints anti-contraception nut as new family-planning chief
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.”
Next week he will announce that Bill Dembski will be the new Secretary of Education.
Somebody PLEASE tell the pres “uh” dent and Mr. Kerouack that unless they HAVE a uterus, they DO NOT get an opinion about what is and is not demeaning to women.
And lest someone WITH a uterus thinks she can tell me when I’m being demeaned; BZZZZZT! Sorry, wrong answer but thanks for playing. I’ll be somewhat more likely to consider your opinion, but I really think I should be able to decide how I feel about birth control (and other issues that affect me.)
What’s demeaning is having others try to tell us when we’re being demeaned and by what because then they think they can tell you you’re NOT being demeaned (or being denied basic human rights or even rights gauanteed us in our Constitution) regardless of what we think.
Yes, what’s demeaning is when a man, who will never be pregnant, thinks he is more qualified to decide what is demeaning to women than women are. Women can and should make their own decisions regarding birth control, including abortion.