{"id":10674,"date":"2006-11-22T15:09:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/11\/22\/the-red-queens-cabinet.html"},"modified":"2006-11-22T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T22:09:39","slug":"the_red_queens_cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/22\/the_red_queens_cabinet.html","title":{"rendered":"The Red Queen’s Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next up, nominating a Pacifist for Secretary of Defense, a Xenophobe for Secretary of State, and a Faith Healer for Surgeon General. But first, let’s appoint an anti-family planning advocate in charge of family planning grants<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

[…] 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 centers in eastern Massachusetts. “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,” the group’s Web site says.<\/p>\n

[…] The federal family-planning program, created in 1970, supports a network of 4,600 family-planning clinics that provide information and counseling to 5 million people each year. Services include patient education and counseling, breast and pelvic exams, pregnancy diagnosis and counseling, and screenings for cervical cancer, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Spiffy. How long until January 2009?<\/p>\n

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(via Ginny<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Next up, nominating a Pacifist for Secretary of Defense, a Xenophobe for Secretary of State, and a Faith Healer for Surgeon General. 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