And, oh yeah. The Bush White House, where the Clean Skies Initiative creates more pollution, No Child Left Behind means abandoning kids, and torture isn't torture anymore.
Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized
By Christopher
LeeWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, November 17, 2006; Page 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.
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.
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Marilyn Keefe, interim president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, which represents 4,000 family-planning clinics, said Keroack's work "seems to really be geared toward furthering anti-choice, anti-contraception policies." She added that despite the congressional election results, the appointment "goes to show you the importance of controlling the White House and how important
federal agencies are in the delivery of health services." 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.
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called Keroack's appointment "striking proof that the Bush administration remains dramatically out of step with the nation's priorities."
Big surprise. More of Bushco's systematic War On Whoopie. Discourage contraception. Promote "Abstinence Only" sex ed, more accurately described as "Ignorance Only" education. Get women to squeeze out as many babies as possible to use as cannon fodder..correction..as arrows in God's Army.
What amazes me is the fact that the Bushies just don't get it. They don't understand that they're losing the War On Whoopie. They don't understand they're in the minority. Most Americans don't think the way they do. If a normal executive branch found itself on the short end of the stick when it comes to what people say they want and need, the executive would at least take the opinions of the majority into consideration. But then, we're not dealing with an normal executive branch.
Earlier this week, Bush's gruppenfuhrer Karl Rove muscled his way into the Republcan National Committee's meeting and announced that Florida Senator Mel Martinez was Bush's pick to be the Committee's new head. Martinez is a stout Bush minion who's often shot off his mouth in favor of the Bushco/Holy Terror anti-gay agenda.
The only problem (for the G.O.P., that is), is that Martinez isn't as anti-gay as he asserts. At least when it comes to people working for him. What does all this mean? Just that Martinez is like most Republican politicians; when it comes to sucking the dick of his base, he's as anti-gay as the rest of them, but that he doesn't really believe it. So when he talks, he's talking out of both sides of his ass.
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