Women's health crisis....

[lunadelcorvo]

The Bush administration has recently announced the appointment of a staunchly anti-birth control extremist to a leadership role in the Office of Population Affairs. Read the Wall Street Journal Article HERE. (Look through the comments, too if you have a minute. Barring a few oddballs, there are some very thoughtful points made.)

It's outrageous. Orr's anti-reproductive health stance is clear. She applauded President Bush's reinstatement of the global gag rule and urged him to revoke approval for mifepristone (formerly known as RU-486)-- both while working for the notoriously anti-choice, anti-birth control, anti-sex education organization, the Family Research Council.

In 2001, she was quoted in the Washington Post favoring a Bush administration plan to drop a requirement that health insurance plans for federal employees cover a broad range of birth control.

“We’re quite pleased because fertility is not a disease,” she said at the time. “It’s not a medical necessity that you have it.” (birth control)

Click HERE to sign a petition opposing this appointment.

Comments

[pollcat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting a link to the petition. Words cannot describe how much I hate what our administration is doing to women's health care. I wonder if Orr considers over-population a disease?

It. Boggles. The. Mind.

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

Most welcome!

You might want to check out dark_christian and dominionism, which is where I found the link to the petition. Both are excellent watchdog groups that try to stay informed about what the right wing loonies are up to...