I can’t think of an issue in the so-called culture war that is less controversial than contraception. I have never met anyone, anywhere, in any context that expressed the view that the availability of contraceptions for adults is a bad thing. So, I ask, WTF?
The Bush administration again has appointed a chief of family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who has been critical of contraception.
Susan Orr, most recently an associate commissioner in the Administration for Children and Families, was appointed Monday to be acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs. She will oversee $283 million in annual grants to provide low-income families and others with contraceptive services, counseling and preventive screenings.
In a 2001 article in The Washington Post, Orr applauded a Bush proposal to stop requiring all health insurance plans for federal employees to cover a broad range of birth control. “We’re quite pleased, because fertility is not a disease,” said Orr, then an official with the Family Research Council.
Fertility may not be a disease but syphilis of the brain most certainly is. Susan Orr must have syphilis of the brain.
