HIV

Contraception Opponent Appointed to HHS

by: Natasha Chart

Tue Jun 09, 2009 at 11:00
I'm not alone in my displeasure over Obama's appointment of Alexia Kelley, an abortion opponent, to director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Kumbaya.

But that's not the worst of it. Kelley is apparently opposed even to contraception. Which is crazy with a side of guano.

Consider that according to Birth Control Watch, 91 percent of voters support contraception access for couples, hardly surprising considering that the average family size in the US is 3.19 persons. Indeed, contraception is so uncontroversial that a Pew study in 2006 showed that 80 percent of Americans oppose allowing pharmacists to refuse to sell birth control, the so-called 'conscience' clause that Obama seems to support in some form.

In short, this is an appointee with an extreme fringe view of family planning that doesn't represent the majority of Republican voters:

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HIV/AIDS activists divided over potential circumcision campaign

by: The Guy Who Always Talks about Genitals

Thu Jul 12, 2007 at 16:22
Stemming HIV/AIDS in Africa is an urgent necessity.  The activist community is divided over male circumcision, with one end of the spectrum arguing for mass child and adult circumcisions, and the other end skeptical of such advocacy and the claims which support it, troubled by the ethical implications, and concerned that such colonial-style interventions may backfire.
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