White House Indicates Benjamin Is Pro-Abortion
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 position on reproductive health issues.”
Abortion is a “reproductive health” issue to the Obama White House, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Congress in April that his administration explicitly interprets “reproductive health” to include access to abortion services.
It remains possible that Benjamin will disavow the Obama spokesman’s comments and declare that she supports Church teachings opposing abortion. Failing such a declaration, the only conclusion to be drawn from what he said yesterday is that she is indeed another one of the lengthy procession of pro-abortion Catholics who have been recruited as members of Obama’s governing team.
