Birth-Control Foe To Run Office on Family Planning

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: Washington Post

Wednesday, October 17, 2007; Page A15

The Bush administration again has appointed a chief of family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who has been critical of contraception.

Susan Orr, most recently an associate commissioner in the Administration for Children and Families, was appointed Monday to be acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs. She will oversee $283 million in annual grants to provide low-income families and others with contraceptive services, counseling and preventive screenings.

In a 2001 article in The Washington Post, Orr applauded a Bush proposal to stop requiring all health insurance plans for federal employees to cover a broad range of birth control. "We're quite pleased, because fertility is not a disease," said Orr, then an official with the Family Research Council.

Critics panned the appointment last year of Eric Keroack, a physician who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that opposed the use of birth control. He resigned in March. "We have another appointment that just truly politicizes family planning," said Mary Jane Gallagher, president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. "The last time I looked, both Republicans and Democrats used contraception in America."...

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[crim son]

1. Is there any reason to be surprised?

Sadly, no. This will go unnoticed & unremarked.

[Ilsa]

2. Is it mysogyny or are they determined to overpopulate the planet

to bring on a natural armageddon?

I cannot stand these opponents of contraception. Contraception is responsible behavior. Bush's grandmother must be spinning in her grave.

[Odin2005]

13. Naw, just religious stupidity.

I've never really believed the notion that this BS is to do with some "subconscious desire to subjugate women", it has always seemed like crap pop sociology of the same kind as the "tall buildings are phallic symbols" nonsense.

[JerseygirlCT]

17. Misogyny. They cannot abide the idea that a woman might

control her own body.

[havocmom]

3. With any luck, she'll get knocked up and have to spend more time with her family

:evilgrin:

[JerseygirlCT]

18. Of course, if she does that, but doesn't have adequate health

insurance, it will be all her fault.

[gateley]

4. This is just so bizarrely typical. nt

[Bjornsdotter]

5. A new low

....:grr:

[mark414]

6. can we have an atheist appointed to head of the faith-based initiatives program?

[pinto]

7. Aghh. The idiocy never stops...

:wtf:

[PSPS]

8. Is this the same nut job who says having pre-marital sex "does damage to the brain?"

[Kool Kitty]

9. No, I think that was the asshole that just resigned.

Keroack.

[PSPS]

11. You're right. This new nut job called contraceptives part of the "Culture Of Death"

A few choice tidbits about this latest effluent from bush's Unqualified Crony Assembly Line (from http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/17/susan-orr/):

– In a 2001, Orr embraced a Bush administration proposal to “stop requiring all health insurance plans for federal employees” to cover a broad range of birth control. “We’re quite pleased, because fertility is not a disease,” said Orr.

– At the 2001 Conservative Political Action Conference, Orr cheered Bush’s endorsement of Reagan’s “Mexico City Policy,” which required NGOs receiving federal funds to “neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.” Orr said that it was proof Bush was pro-life “in his heart.”

– In a 2000 Weekly Standard article, Orr railed against requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives. “It’s not about choice,” said Orr. “It’s not about health care. It’s about making everyone collaborators with the culture of death.”

– Orr authored a paper in 2000 titled, “Real Women Stay Married.” In it she wrote that women should “think about focusing our eyes, not upon ourselves, but upon the families we form through marriage.”

[kimmylavin]

12. Real Women Stay Married?

Even if the "real men" they're married to beat them, or sleep around.

These people show SUCH a disconnect from the larger picture of reality.

[truthisfreedom]

10. We need activists to go through these people's garbage and out them for using birth control

while denying others the same right.

[woodsprite]

14. Will her office be next to the veterinarian who runs "Women's Health"?

Or has that person been there and gone by now?

[Javaman]

15. Huh, I just contracted out the protection of my hen house to a wolf...

think it's a good idea?

:banghead:

[Joanne98]

16. First abortion, now birth-control. Just like they planned all along!

Pro-lifers are LIARS and FRAUDS!

[dbackjon]

19. Shouldn't she be at home with her kids?

Dems - this is something worth blocking!!