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Leavitt under fire from right as HHS pick
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Jan 16, 2005 10:00pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Salt Lake Tribune |
| News Date | Sunday, January 16, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Two major conservative Christian groups, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, recently issued alerts to their thousands of members nationwide questioning whether Leavitt is a "true conservative," whether he will be a strong anti-abortion advocate and whether he will weaken the abstinence-only education program administered by HHS.
"On the surface, Leavitt appears to be in a position, based on his past actions, where he would stand in contradiction to where the president is on these issues," Peter Brandt, senior director of government and public policy at the Colorado-based Focus on the Family, said in a statement.
Added Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council: "Leavitt's past decisions raise legitimate questions about where he will be on these key value issues in the future if confirmed."
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Family Research Council and Focus on the Family are critical of the Leavitt administration's 1998 authorization to use abstinence education grant funds for recreational sports, his decision to drop the state's losing federal court battle to uphold Utah's anti-abortion law, and his veto of a bill passed by the 2000 Utah Legislature that would have mandated abstinence-only be taught in Utah schools' sex education classes. |
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