DebateGate
General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Amianthus on November 17, 2006, 03:58:18 PM
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Friday, November 17, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration, to the consternation of its critics, has picked the medical director of an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion to lead the office that oversees federally funded teen pregnancy, family planning and abstinence programs.
The appointment of Eric Keroack, a Marblehead, Mass. obstetrician and gynecologist, to oversee the federal Office of Population Affairs and its $283 million annual budget has angered family-planning advocates.
Keroack currently is medical director of A Woman's Concern, a Christian nonprofit. The Dorchester, Mass.-based organization runs six centers in the state that offer free pregnancy testing, ultrasounds and counseling.
It also works to "help women escape the temptation and violence of abortion," according to its statement of faith. And it opposes contraception, saying its use increases out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion rates.
Article (http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/11/family-planning-appointee-stirs.html)
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http://feministing.com/archives/006076.html
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http://kansascity.abstinence.net/details.php
Includes links to speeches the man has made.
You may find the OZ theme amuseing.
Wednesday, June 7
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM The Emerald City - Registration & Exhibitor Showcase
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Welcome to Oz! - Leslee Unruh, Abstinence Clearinghouse
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM If I Only Had a Brain (The Effects of Sex on Brain Physiology) - Eric Keroack, MD
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LOL
Thanks, Plane.