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White House Indicates Benjamin Is Pro-Abortion

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Posted by Tom McFeely

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:52 AM

Dr. Regina Benjamin

Catholics still don’t know definitively that Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Barack Obama’s nominee for surgeon general, is pro-abortion. But it appears increasingly likely that she is.

McClatchy Newspapers posted an article yesterday entitled “Obama’s surgeon general pick: a Catholic who backs abortion rights.” It quotes an Obama spokesman who said she “supports the president’s... READ MORE


 

Is Benjamin Pro-Abortion?

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Posted by Tom McFeely

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:45 AM

President Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius with Dr. Regina Benjamin (c) yesterday in the Rose Garden at the White House. (Reuters)

It appears I may have spoken too soon earlier today, in suggesting that President Barack Obama’s Catholic nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Regina Benjamin, hasn’t been supportive of legal abortion.

Sharp-eyed Daily Blog reader Laura Rohling directed my attention to this article published yesterday by Lifenews, which indicates Benjamin does have a record of support for abortion.

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Catholic Surgeon General

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Posted by Tom McFeely

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:59 AM

Dr. Regina Benjamin (CNS)

Catholic leaders are applauding President Barack Obama’s nomination of black Catholic family practitioner Dr. Regina Benjamin to serve as the nation’s new surgeon general.

And Benjamin, who is a product of a Catholic college education, certainly has an impressive résumé of providing selfless medical service to the residents, many of them impoverished, of Bayou La Batre, Ala.

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