A pro-life spokesman has some well-founded concerns about Barack Obama's choice for America's new Medicare/Medicaid "czar."

While members of Congress were on vacation last week, President Obama made a controversial but constitutionally permissible recess appointment, choosing Dr. Donald Berwick to head up the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Under that appointment -- which has been criticized by both sides of the political aisle -- Berwick could serve through next year without Senate confirmation. (See earlier story)

Recess appointments are not uncommon. In fact, Barack Obama's four predecessors took that route more than 600 times combined. But the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) believes President Obama chose this route for Berwick so the 63-year-old Harvard professor could avoid close inspection during a confirmation process...