Bipartisan Bush Appoints Anti-Birth Control Activist to Head Family Planning

Bush has claimed that he's ready to govern in a bipartisan fashion. His idea of bipartisanship? For starters, he's reappointed right-wing judges that have already been rejected, and has brought back anti-UN John Bolton for Senate confirmation as UN Ambassador.

His latest way of reaching across the aisle - late last week, Bush appointed Dr. Erik Keroack to head up the Office of Family Planning, which adminsters all Title X programs. Title X of the Public Health Service Act provides family planning services primarily to low-income women.

What's wrong with Keroack? He's one of the leaders of the abstinence-only movement, and has served as the medical director of five so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that refuse to provide information about birth control and provide misleading information to pregnant women about their options. In Dr. Keroack's new role, he will oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding designated to provide access to reproductive health information and contraception.

Planned Parenthood has a petition you can sign and send to Secretary Michael Levitt, urging him to replace Keroack. The man clearly has no business in this position. Sign it and send it on to anyone you know who is concerned with women's health and safety. Bush had six years with nobody telling him "no," on these types of issues - not anymore big boy.