Mississippi governor appoints anti-choice activist to state health board

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Mississippi governor appoints anti-choice activist to state health board
By David Ferguson
Friday, March 29, 2013 14:24 EDT

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant nominated anti-abortion activist Terri Herring to the State Board of Health in spite of Herring’s complete lack of medical or health care related training. According to the Jackson Free Press, Herring will be replacing Dr. Ellen P. Willis on a board that is otherwise made up almost entirely of physicians, nurses and other medical professionals.

According to the Free Press, the 11-member state board “provides policy direction for the Mississippi Department of Health, appoints a state health officer to operate the agency; approves the state health plan; and approves all rules and regulations of the agency.”

Herring’s personal website is dominated by the logo for the anti-choice Pro-Life America Network (PLAN). She has lobbied the state government in favor of fetal heartbeat legislation, fetal personhood laws and other legislation designed to restrict women’s access to birth control and abortion services.

“Thank you for continuing the effort to bring Mississippi back to LIFE. Terri,” she wrote under a summation of a bill to block women’s access to Plan B or “morning after” anti-pregnancy medications, which prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/29/mississippi-governor-appoints-anti-choice-activist-to-state-health-board/

[nolabear]

1. Y'all know I defend MS people and culture here but they need to LOSE Bryant.

A Change is Gonna Come!

[atreides1]

2. "A Change is Gonna Come!"

Whatever you're on, you should share!

Even if Bryant falls off the edge of the world, you still have the Republicans and their conservative supporters...so there is no change coming...except that change you get when you buy something at the store!

But keep up the fight.

[nolabear]

4. It will. It has and it will. Too many good folks not to.

[sakabatou]

3. Oh god...