Re:Generator would like to warmly welcome Susan Orr to her post as acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. Orr will
oversee $283 million in annual grants to provide low-income families and others with contraceptive services, counseling and preventive screenings.
Only…
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.
– In a 2000 Weekly Standard article, Orr railed against requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives. “It’s not about choice,†said Orr. “It’s not about health care. It’s about making everyone collaborators with the culture of death.â€â€“ Orr authored a paper in 2000 titled, “Real Women Stay Married.†In it she wrote that women should “think about focusing our eyes, not upon ourselves, but upon the families we form through marriage.â€
Well, then.
Enjoy the time you’ve been given to to wrap your slimy bureaucratic tentacles around our sexual freedoms, Mrs. Orr!
