President Bush's nomination of Ellen Sauerbrey to be assistant secretary of state for the bureau of population, refugees, and migration is opposed by a host of feminist groups and has been the subject of hostile editorials likening the talented former Maryland lawmaker to FEMA's hapless Michael Brown.
President Bush's nomination of Ellen Sauerbrey to be assistant
secretary of state for the bureau of population, refugees, and migration The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) is a bureau within the United States Department of State. It has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs. is opposed by a host of feminist groups and has been the subject of
hostile editorials likening the talented former Maryland lawmaker to
FEMA's hapless Michael Brown. Sauerbrey has spent 30 years in
public life--including 16 years in the Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis. ,
where she served as minority leader. She came within 3/10 of one percent
of being elected governor of Maryland The Governor of Maryland heads the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Maryland and is commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. He or she is the highest ranking official in the state, and has a broad range of appointive powers in state and local . Sauerbrey has been a U.S.
delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations. It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and was also assisted in its work by the Office of the United and is the
U.S. representative to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women Noun 1. Commission on the Status of Women - the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with the status of women in different societies . In
this post for the past three years she has been a forceful advocate in
the international campaign against the abuse and exploitation of women.
Her feminist opponents think that advocacy should include the
recognition of abortion as an internationally recognized human right,
but Sauerbrey reliably represents the pro-life policies of the
administration she serves. The phony "Bush crony" charge masks
the monolithic international sisterhood's demand that when it comes
to helping suffering women and children worldwide, only advocates of
abortion need apply.
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