 In late 2006, he was named as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, the office that oversees federally funded teenage pregnancy, family planning, and abstinence programs.The nomination of Keroack, an anti-contraceptive advocate, to a position responsible for ensuring low-income women get access to birth control was controversial..Critics cited Keroack's opposition to legalized abortion without noting that the doctor had himself once performed abortions and provided abortifacients before later reversing his stance on legalized abortion, as did (among others) Bernard Nathanson, MD, an early founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL).