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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">>>In a Monday morning telephone interview,
[Catholic Health Association president] Sr. [Carol] Keehan pointed out that
Dr. Benjamin isn't “in a specialty that would do abortion” and that her work
to provide health care to the poor and elderly demonstrates her “tremendous
attention to the issue of life.”</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">My response: Wrong, wrong, wrong. In her
position as SG, Benjamin will mandate tax-funded abortions and
withholding of life-saving treatment to the poor, the elderly, the disabled, and
citizens with high-cost medical conditions whose "quality of life" is not
acceptable to the faceless bureaucrats who will work for her.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">This is a disgrace and another Obama
spit-in-your-face to Catholics. I am horrified by the responses of
Donahue, Keehan, and most especially Msgr. Farmer. What is going
on?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">Holly</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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<P>Source:http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2009/07/top-doc-pro-choice.html</P>
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<P>President Barack Obama's nominee for surgeon general is a Catholic best
known for founding an Alabama clinic that treats the poor, but her
lesser-known support for abortion rights puts her at odds with her church and
some of the groups that have praised her work.<BR><BR>Regina Benjamin's Bayou
La Batre Rural Health Clinic doesn't perform abortions. A clinic employee who
declined to be identified said by telephone that patients seeking information
about abortions would be referred to providers in the state.<BR><BR>White
House spokesman Reid Cherlin said, however, that Benjamin "supports the
president's position on reproductive health issues."<BR><BR>Obama supports
abortion rights and public funding of contraception and sex
education.<BR><BR>Cherlin continued: "Like him she believes that this is an
issue where it is important to try and seek common ground and come together to
try and reduce the number of unintended pregnancies. As a physician, she is
deeply committed to the philosophy of putting her patients' needs first when
it comes to providing care."<BR><BR>Benjamin also was a board member for
Physicians for Human Rights, an international group that has advocated access
to safe abortions in its investigation of human rights conditions in some
countries....<BR><BR>Gregg Bloche, a doctor and lawyer who served on the
Physicians for Human Rights board with Benjamin, said he didn't know her views
on abortion and that it was never a focus of her advocacy work. "That is not
something she's engaged in," he said.<BR><BR>"The story of her appointment and
the potential of the job are, in my view, about getting people in the worst
circumstances in life to be proactive about their own health needs, a
grassroots initiative as part of a larger sense of both individual and common
responsibility," Bloche said. "I think that's what her appointment represents.
To get hung up on abortion would completely miss the point."<BR><BR>Msgr.
Michael Farmer, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Mobile, Ala., told the
Catholic News Agency that he didn't "explicitly" know about Dr. Benjamin's
abortion stance and never discussed it with her.<BR><BR>"I would hope that her
position would be in line with the Church's position," he added.<BR><BR>"As
far as I know she has been in conformity with the Catholic
Church."</P></BLOCKQUOTE><A
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<P>Msgr. Farmer said Dr. Benjamin is a “delightful lady” who has served as
lector at the cathedral and has been “readily available” to speak with various
Catholic organizations. She has also worked with Catholic Charities in Mobile
and has spoken on the good the organization does.</P>
<P>He reported that she grew up at the historically African-American parish
Shrine of the Holy Cross in the Gulf Coast town of Daphne, Alabama.</P>
<P>The monsignor also confirmed that then-Archbishop of Mobile Oscar Lipscomb
recommend [<SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">sic</SPAN>] Dr. Regina Benjamin
for the <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
</SPAN>award. The medal is bestowed to lay people and clergy who have given
zealous and outstanding service to the Church. The honor was instituted by
Pope Leo XIII in 1888.</P>
<P>“He recommended her for her example in her Catholic faith as well as in her
medical profession,” Msgr. Farmer said, noting the “amazing amount of work”
she has done for the common good and for health care in south Mobile
County.</P>
<P>Expressing certainty that Dr. Benjamin had opportunities to go elsewhere,
he said the doctor had made a “concrete decision” to remain in Alabama and
address her patients’ needs.</P>
<P>“She’s noted not only for clinic work, but for going on site to these
people’s homes. And they’re not necessarily the nicest places to go to.”</P>
<P>He said it was “remarkable” and “bridge-building” that Dr. Benjamin, an
African-American woman, has done her work in the bayou, which he described as
a majority white community with “a lot of poor people in it.”...</P>
<P>In a Monday morning telephone interview, [Catholic Health Association
president] Sr. [Carol] Keehan pointed out that Dr. Benjamin isn't “in a
specialty that would do abortion” and that her work to provide health care to
the poor and elderly demonstrates her “tremendous attention to the issue of
life.”</P>
<P>“And you've got her own archbishop who asked the Holy Father to give her
the Pro Ecclesia medal. </P>
<P>“You don't get that for just being a token Catholic,” she told
CNA.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>All that said, however, a more <A
href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106581890"><FONT
color=#5588aa>pressing development</FONT></A> looms: the <A
href="http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=87352873-3048-741E-9131977572051964"><FONT
color=#5588aa>"deal breaker" prospect</FONT></A> of Federal funding for
abortions in the administration's plans for expanded public health
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Dianne Dawson
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<DIV>I would be very interested in a reply/response from Bill Donohue and how he
could have been so laudatory of this woman.</DIV>
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<DIV><EM><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000bf>Like a deer that longs
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