Senators Condemn Orr Appointment
You must check out this letter that 19 other senators wrote to HHS Sec. Michael Leavitt on the appointment of Dr. Susan Orr as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs. An excerpt:
Dr. Orr has a troubling history of opposing federal funding for contraception, which is counter to the mission of the office to which she has been appointed. In 2001, she spoke in favor of a Bush administration plan to drop a requirement that health insurance for federal employees must cover birth control. “We’re quite pleased because fertility is not a disease,” Dr. Orr said at the time on contraception. “It’s not a medical necessity that you have it.”
Uh, is Dr. Orr for real?
Sadly, as many other bloggers have pointed out, this is just one of the many troubling things from Dr. Orr’s history. So kudos to those senators for sending this letter and condemning this nomination. Click here to read the letter and see if your senators have signed on.
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It's stunning how ignorant these people are. Here's for starters - not everyone taking birth control pills takes them to control their fertility! They are prescribed for a range of conditions - why shouldn't they be covered under insurance?