I remember when there used to be a column devoted to weird news. Nowadays, it's damn near impossible to find any news that's not weird! Thank you, Bush!!!
You read that headline right. Your Commander-in-La-La-Land has appointed an anti birth control abstinence freak to be in charge of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services. You remember the DHHS, aka, the Department of Rightwing Fathers' Rights.
Abstinence guru, Eric Keroack will become deputy assistant secretary for population affairs and will "advise Secretary Mike Leavitt on matters such as reproductive health and adolescent pregnancy."
Apparently, there are no women in charge of women's health or reproductive services.
Keroack is currently the medical director for a crisis pregnancy center which regards birth control as "demeaning to women."
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.
A White House spokesperson says Bush will not compromise on his principles. Who knows what that means? Maybe the lunatic wants to see some virgin births?
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