And the Bush administration is coming under criticism for its new choice to head family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services. The appointee, Eric Keroack, is former head of A Women’s Concern—a medical organization that discourages handing contraceptives to women. The Washington Post reports the group supports sexual abstinence until marriage, opposes contraception and does not distribute information promoting birth control at its six centers in eastern Massachusetts. Keroack will play an advisory role on reproductive health and adolescent pregnancy, and oversee $283 million in annual family-planning grants. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said, “[Keroack’s appointment is] striking proof that the Bush administration remains dramatically out of step with the nation’s priorities.”