WH Evildoers are at it again.

[babylonsister]

This is pretty frightening.

President Bush has announced his plan to select Dr. W.
David Hager to Head up the Food and Drug
Administration's (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs
Advisory Committee. The committee has not met for more
than two years, during which time its charter lapsed.
As a result, the Bush Administration is tasked with
filling all eleven positions with new members.

This position does not require Congressional approval.

The FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee
makes crucial decisions on matters relating to drugs
used in the practice of obstetrics, gynecology and
related specialties, including hormone therapy,
contraception, treatment for infertility, and medical
alternatives to surgical procedures for sterilization
and pregnancy termination.

Dr. Hager, the author of "As Jesus Cared for Women:
Restoring Women Then and Now." The book blends
biblical accounts of Christ healing Women with case
studies from Hager's practice. His views of productive
health care are far outside the mainstream for
reproductive technology. Dr. Hager is a practicing
OB/GYN who describes himself as "pro-life" and refuses
to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women.

In the book Dr. Hager wrote with his wife, entitled
"Stress and the Woman's Body," he suggests that women
who suffer from premenstrual syndrome
should seek help from reading the bible and praying.
As an editor and contributing author of "The
Reproduction Revolution: A Christian Appraisal of
Sexuality Reproductive Technologies and the Family,"
Dr. Hager appears to have endorsed the medically
inaccurate assertion that the common birth Control
pill is an abortifacient.

We are concerned that Dr. Hager's strong religious
beliefs may color his assessment of technologies that
are necessary to protect women's lives or to preserve
and promote women's health.

Hager's track record of using religious beliefs to
guide his medical decision-making makes him a
dangerous and inappropriate candidate to serve as
chair of this committee. Critical drug public policy
and research must not be held hostage by antiabortion
politics. Members of this important panel should be
appointed on the basis of science and medicine,
rather than politics and religion. American women
deserve no less.

[Kierkegaard]

1. Hmmm...

Think any of this has to do with helping ObGyns to 'practice their love' with their patients?

[WLKjr]

3. I think it was....

helping them practice their love on their patients. You know just like he knows how hard it is for us to put food on our families.....

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. This is truly frightening...

They're going to take certain items off the market, like the pill.

[izzie]

4. Funny. Oh well we will get what we vote for.

Lots of old white guys running women. It is just to funny.If Bush gets in once more it really should be fun.

[cosmicaug]

This is old, old, old....

babylonsister quoted:

This is pretty frightening.

President Bush has announced his plan to select Dr. W.
David Hager to Head up the Food and Drug
Administration's (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs
Advisory Committee.

This is old, old, old. Please give it a break. It's a done deal but he's not the chair. See http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/hager.htm

[Sugarbleus]

5. OMG, what a bunch of twisted *ucks

I once believed in the fundie/evangelical dogma.........I CANNOT GRASP HOW I FELL FOR IT FOR SO LONG......... I am utterly ashamed AND PISSED OFF.

These twisted Pharisees have completely hijacked Christianity in it's purest form. It's outrageous!

They ARE dangerous people.......either blast them with facts of their errs or STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THEM.

[yardwork]

6. Here it comes.....

Here comes my 19th nervous breakdown.

[Sugarbleus]

8. 19th?? lol Nooooo, take a nice calming VALIUM and go for a

walk. Then write to your representatives (or someone else's if you can get through)...complain about how twisted this dogmatic appointment is/could be.

STOP THE MADNESS.

[catzies]

7. Welcome to DU. This is not new. Happened in 2002.

But he's being re-appointed now and that's bad.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13192-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_politics