Pro- or anti- is almost beside the point. That presentation looks like the work of an eighth grader. Frightening. But then, maybe my brain is addled by all the nonmarital sex I've had.

...is reporting this as confirmed. May the gods be with us...

Don't damage your health and future job prospects by taking drugs. Try sex instead! Makes you feel great and gives you a healthier glow than putting all that pore-clogging makeup on your face and torturing yourself with exercise.

The Boston Globe has announced the appointment, and I just want to vomit. I understand that the administration gets to make political appointments, but the aggressive policy bias in the areas of health, science, and the environment is just depressing.

As others have said, Bush's idea of bipartisanship is to agree to do what he wants, and if he doesn't have to get approval from Congress, he's got no interest in even pretending to give a damn what the general public thinks of his choices in policy or appointments. This is just pandering to the anti-abortion crowd. Never mind that this could have devastating effects on the population Keroack is actually supposed to be serving at HHS.

First, a disclaimer, I am not encouraging or agreeing with anything else that Keroack is saying, but I am asking what's so bad about offering pregnant women who are thinking of getting an abortion free ultrasounds (as long as it is not coupled with any lies or pseudo-science about the dangers of blah, blah blah).

Yes, it will make the decision to have an abortion harder, but isn't that part of the point? It should be a woman's choice, but she should also know what she is doing and why. Part of that is having the knowledge of what is going on inside of you.

Abortion shouldn't be chosen because it is the first choice, but because it is the best one after all others have been considered. It seems to me that getting an ultrasound might help clarify what exactly is being given up.

Andrew, I follow your logic, and I appreciate your point that women should be making an informed decision when it comes to choosing whether or not to have an abortion. But there is a problem with a scenario in which women seeking abortions are offered or encouraged to have an ultrasound. Namely, this is not a neutral offer; it's an offer that, as you say, will likely make it harder for the woman to decide to proceed with the abortion.

Certainly, healthcare decisions often are hard. Dealing with the complexities of medical care and our own elemental concerns about our well-being, we could hardly expect decisions about our health to be easy. However, we should be able to expect that our medical care providers not deliberately complicate our decisions by infusing our decision-making process with someone else's moral standards. There are many, many people who do not consider abortion to be a immoral option. Many people consider it to be a medical procedure on par with getting, say, a hysterectomy or an appendectomy. If you're not attempting to influence the outcome, what possible reason could there be for offering a woman in this category an ultrasound?

Now, you or I or many thousands of other people may not agree that seeking an abortion does not have a moral component, but that's a conversation to be had outside a doctor's examination room. When it comes to abortion, the kinds of conversations that should occur in a doctor's office should be limited to the facts regarding the procedure itself.

The tech does it to ensure that the fetus is there and alive and not past whatever date you thought it was past. And you can look at the screen if you want to. We don't need anti-abortion people to show the ultrasounds in order for it to happen. And many women decide on abortion after they've already had an early ultrasound and even gotten quite attached. I think the idea that an ultrasound would change a lot of people's minds is pretty stupid.

It really says that in this guy's presentation! I am not always 100% on with Broadsheet, though I am a general supporter, but it's worth having you guys and gals around just to get a little snapshot into scary stuff like that. Thanks for being here.

I mean let's get to the root cause of abortions: man and woman sex. Go the way of Socrates and the problem is solved. Of course we all die out, but we're working on that problem.

Folks, listen this guy is famous for fake abortion clinics,

i.e a woman thinks she is going to an abortion clinic, but it

is really a trap where people try to bully her into changing her

mind. - basically lying to women for their own good.

But more importantly this is guy is famous for being anti-birthcontrol,

because it cheapens women, and releases chemicals, that make them less able to bond, and therefor less likely to marry - go read the article on

him on the CNN site. This guy shouldn't have a medical licensce much

less, a government agency in charge of birthcontrol.

Folks, he and the right are trying to protect us little ladies from the

big bad sexuality we might be tempted with, if we have access to birthcontrol. And the people who stayed home and thought I'll never have an abortion, so it doesn't affect me --- wake up, it isnt' enough for these people to get rid of abortion, that is just the start. It is like the saying in German, first they came for x , but since I was not x I did nothing,.... until of course they come for you. Fighting for everyones right to sexual freedom, and choices is necessary, even if some of the choices/freedoms make you uncomfortable or disgusted, because each choice that is lost, makes it easier for the wackos' to take the next thing away - and eventually it will be a right you took for granted and can't function without.

Do you want the government in your bedroom, or bodies telling you want you can or can't do sexually, or medically - it really is yes or no. And if some of the things people do makes you uncomfortable, well - are you willing to give up something for everything you want another group to give up? Willing to give up sex? Birthcontrol? Abortions? - folks they all need to stay, or they all will be areas, the government thinks it can control or outlaw. You can't get rid of one without endangering the others, no matter what wishful thinking is going on.