TN: pro life community concerned about the fox in the hen house.

Tennessean downplays the abortion support in the puff piece about the strange selection from a "pro life" governor who appointed the new Commissioner of Health for TN.   They mention the  concerns of the pro life community but diss it by calling it political. Disappointed is too mild I would say.....pro life Tennesseans have clearly spoken about abortion and the funding of it but strange things happen  like bumps in the middle of the night.  Dates on legislation passed are changed. Ghost amendments  insert themselves into legislation that negates the intent of the legislature.  

RTL calls it fox guarding the hen house but maybe it is more like from the frying pan into the  fire.  

 
From Knox News:

In a new release Tennessee Right to Life President Brian Harris focused on Dreyzehner as a presenter at the 2011 conference of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, during which he appeared with "pro-abortion lobbyist" Rachel Benson Gold.
"After a legislative session in which pro-life majorities made clear their desire to bar the use of tax dollars for agencies such as Planned Parenthood, it appears that the governor has invited a fox into the henhouse," said Harris in the news release.

In an interview, Harris said Right to Life had suggested "several names" as a new health commissioner and the organization had been hopeful for appointment of a commissioner more supportive of the group's views than Cooper was. There is "deep disappointment" that was not the case, he added.
The group was unhappy with Cooper on several fronts. Harris said the Department of Health, for example, has failed to enforce a 2009 mandating that abortion providers post notices declaring patients cannot be coerced into having an abortion.

"Dreyzehner's active involvement with an organization so radically supportive of abortion makes clear that pro-life Tennesseans will have a continued fight in order to enforce even the most basic pro-life protections for unborn children and abortion vulnerable women in our state," said Harris.
Money for Shelby: After some controversy earlier this year on efforts by Republican legislators to block Planned Parenthood from receiving any state funding, the group was this week granted $75,000 in government funds to provide free testing for syphilis project in Shelby County. The money came from federal dollars, but is allocated by the state.

"It's difficult to construe this as anything other than a slap in the face of pro-life Tennesseans across the state," said Harris.