STOP The Keroack Nomination!

Sign our petition telling Secretary Leavitt that Dr. Eric Keroack is the wrong man for the job.

Planned Parenthood Action Council needs your help.  We are going to tell our former Governor, Mike Leavitt, that Dr. Keroack is the wrong man to head the Health and Human Services' family planning program. 

How can Secretary Leavitt ask for family planning advice from a man who long served as the medical director of A Woman’s Concern, a chain of so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” that believes that  contraceptive drugs and devices are “demeaning to women.”

Sample Letter for Campaign

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

As an advocate for women's health and access to birth control and medically accurate sex education, I am outraged by the appointment of Eric Keroack to the position of deputy assistant secretary for population affairs (DASPA). Eric Keroack's role as the medical director of six so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that oppose contraception and family planning calls into question his ability to administer the nation's family planning program. Keroack also has testified in favor of biased counseling provisions in the Massachusetts legislature and has produced numerous writings that promote politics over sound science and medicine.

As the new DASPA, Keroack will oversee Title X and have authority over hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding meant to provide access to contraception and reproductive health information. Title X has been crucial in helping millions of American women prevent unintended pregnancies and obtain reproductive health care for three decades.

The appointment of anti-birth control, anti-sex education advocate Eric Keroack to oversee the nation's family planning program is not in the health interest of women and families. Three weeks ago, Americans overwhelmingly rejected an extremist agenda, and sent a clear message that women's health care is a priority. I am asking you to do the same.

It's time to move forward with policies that can help prevent unintended pregnancies, including support for broader access to contraceptives and comprehensive, fact-based sex education. Because I care about commonsense solutions that protect women's health, like an affirmative Prevention First agenda that includes full funding for birth control, I urge you to replace Eric Keroack with a Title X administrator who is committed to protecting women's health.

Signed by:

Campaign Launched:
December 04, 2006