Anti-Birth Control Appointee Is a Bad Choice

[shadowkatt]

Bush has just appointed a highly criticized, anti-contraception person to be the new cheif of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Here are some news clips that criticize this appointment:

• "The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human

Comments

[ocelot_eyes]

Wow. Just wow. I bet they never asked us women, who actually need and use birthcontrol, about how it makes us feel. I bet 99% of the responses sure as hell wouldn't be "well gee golly mr Bush, it makes us feel insulted and degraded", that's for sure.

I fear for the United States...
(where, apparently, it's already notoriously difficult to get the morning-after pill as it is.)

[shadowkatt]

Yeah, it scares me, too... Crazy things like this are part of why I've been trying to get more involved in politics lately (too bad I'm not old enough to vote yet).