The mandate of our newly crowned family planning czarina does indeed conflict with her ideology, since Think Progress reminds us that Orr, who cut her "family values" teeth at the knee of Tony Perkins, sees those who promote access to contraception as "collaborators with the culture of death."

Orr herself has "cheered" the Mexico City policy responsible for fathomless suffering. The Religious Right's loathing of the "contraceptive mentality" has spread disease and death across great swaths of the developing world. And now, enabled by the pro-death policies of our "pro-life" president, the Christian right's anti-contraception campaign is set to share its love with women all across America.

Despite a new and comprehensive report [pdf link] from the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute verifying what anyone with a lick of sense already knows--that the only effective way to reduce the incidence of both unintended pregnancies and abortion is to make contraception more available--the United States of the 21st century is placing $283 million in family planning dollars and $30 million in abstinence-only funding into the hands of a woman who has long opposed coverage for birth control in federal employees' health plans because "fertility is not a disease."

No, Dr. Orr, fertility is not a disease. But with the global damage already wrought in the name of contorted and distorted religion, and with the prevalence of real diseases like syphilis, gonorrhea and HPV mushrooming among America's young people faster than the size of the newest megachurch, quasi-religious ideology as government policy has become a plague upon the world.

Threatened by the infection of our national family planning policy with the philosophy of Dr. Eric Keroack -- who resigned only when Massachusetts began investigating his Medicaid billing practices -- people of good will and good sense demanded scientific integrity from the Office of Population Affairs.

With the advent of Susan Orr, it's painfully apparent that they didn't get it.