In yet another stunning move on the part of the Bush administration, the President has appointed Dr. Susan Orr, an outspoken proponent of abstinence-only birth control and opponent of contraception as “Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs” to oversee Title X, the nation’s family planning program.

Dr. Orr has said that health insurance programs do not need to cover contraception because in her opinion, “fertility is not a disease.”  She also said that by not including a “conscience clause” to allow employers to opt out of providing coverage for contraception, the city council of Washington, D.C., was forcing employers «to make a choice between serving God and serving the D.C. government.

«It’s not about choice,” she said. “It’s not about health care. It’s about making everyone collaborators with the culture of death.”

“Unbelievable,” quipped the leading Libertarian Candidate for President, George Phillies.  “Every child should be a wanted child, and we have control over our reproduction by means other than simple abstinence.  It makes no sense for the President to appoint someone who is hostile to the idea of contraception to oversee family planning.

“What next, appoint a pacifist to be in charge of the Department of Defense?  A Flat-Earther to run the National Geologic Survey?  A Secretary of Agriculture who thinks apples grow in bags?  Or perhaps Bush should appoint an attorney general who thinks it’s OK to throw Americans into prison for years, without trial, and torture them? 

“Oh, wait.  Bush did that.  Never mind.”

For real change, vote Libertarian.