Foster Grilled on Pregnancy-Prevention Program

By Jessica Portner

Washington

Republican senators grilled the Clinton Administration's nominee for surgeon general last week on the effectiveness of a teenage-pregnancy-prevention program he founded.

As expected, some Republican members of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee used the panel's confirmation hearings on the nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr. to question him about his record on abortion. Dr. Foster's nomination became controversial after he and Administration officials gave varying accounts of the number of abortions the...