CWN reports: President Barack Obama has nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin, a member of the board of trustees of the Catholic Health Association, as United States surgeon general. The founder and CEO of a rural Alabama health clinic, Dr. Benjamin was awarded the papal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross in 2006. She also serves on the board of the American Medical Association and is a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award.
However according to a report by LifeNews she is pro-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.”
She supported teaching doctors to do abortions in an interview with the Associated Press.
“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,” she said. Read full article here.
