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BY LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, November 17, 2006 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - President George W. Bush has appointed a physician with close ties to the pro-life movement to supervise federal family-planning programs.The President has named Dr. Eric Keroack to be the assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. In that post he will supervise the disbursement of $283 million in annual federal grants to family-planning programs.Keroack, a Massachusetts gynecologist, has been a pioneer in the use of ultrasound technology in crisis-pregnancy centers. He has developed a national reputation in the pro-life movement for his work in persuading women not to have abortions, and in discouraging pre-martial sexual activity. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Keroack had served as a medical director for crisis-pregnancy centers operated by A Women’s Concern, a Massachusetts non-profit group that operates several crisis-pregnancy centers in the Boston area. The group—which has won state and federal grants for abstinence education—takes a firm stand against family-planning programs that encourage contraceptive use. The group’s web site proclaims: “A Woman’s Concern is persuaded that the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human health and happiness.” http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-doctor-appointed-to-supervise-us-family-planning-programs/

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