Looks like the White House has confirmed that she's Obama's type of Catholic...a dissenter (updates below)Mixed Reviews for Obama's Surgeon General nominee, Regina Benjamin. The article below indicates she is pro-abortion. However, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League is praising her nomination (link below).
President Barack Obama named Alabama physician Regina Benjamin as the next Surgeon General of the United States. Benjamin is an African-American doctor who is known for rebuilding her medical clinic after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and then ravaged by fire in 2006.
However, Benjamin has also urged that future physicians be trained to learn how to perform abortions.
In 1990, Benjamin founded the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic to serve the Gulf Coast fishing community of Bayou La Batre, Alabama and its 2,500 residents.
She is credited with maintaining contact with patients scattered across multiple evacuation sites and having a practice that allows her to treat all incoming patients, many of whom are uninsured and get rides to the clinic from Benjamin.
Benjamin became the first black physician and the youngest doctor ever elected to the American Medical Association's board.
In that position, she presents some concerns for the majority of Americans who take a pro-life position on abortion.
In December 1996, Benjamin spoke in favor of a vote by the AMA's governing body to "urge medical schools to expand their curriculum" to teach "more about abortion."
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UPDATE: Donohue sounds more cautious on Benjamin.
Catholic League Praises Obama's Choice for Surgeon General, but Details on Abortion Position Murky
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3 comments:
I've read Dr. Benjamin's comments, and the whole quote was this: "We are adopting a policy that medical school curriculum provide the legal, ethical, and psychological principles associated with abortion so students can learn all the factors involved".
Dr. Benjamin is regarded as a practicing Catholic who has received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal from Pope Benedict XVI. Her comments could be taken to mean that she wanted med students to know ALL the facts - not just the one-sided, pro-abortion view that most med schools teach.
I think pro-lifers just might be jumping to a wrong conclusion here; we shall have to wait and see.
I think you may be right. I just received the Catholic League's article and I revised the post accordingly. Thanks!
Looks like we've confirmed that she's Obama's type of Catholic...a dissenter
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