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President Bush last week appointed a new chief of family-planning programs who works for a health group that considers contraceptives “demeaning to women.” Dr. Eric Keroack is medical director of the Massachusetts-based A Woman’s Concern, which helps women with unplanned pregnancies but discourages abortions. The group also asserts on its Web site that “the crass commercialization and distribution of birth control is demeaning to women, degrading to human sexuality, and adverse to human health and happiness.” Keroack’s supporters say he is a respected obstetrician-gynecologist with considerable experience working with women and girls in crisis. In his new role, Keroack will advise the Department of Health and Human Services on reproductive health and teen pregnancy.
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