hoke Posted October 9 Report Share Posted October 9 Coming out of lurking mode for this one... It's too important not to share.Time is the only news source I've found that's reported on this. That's scary in and of itself.http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,361521,00.htmlA quiet battle is raging over the Bush Administration's plan to appoint a scantily credentialed doctor, whose writings include a book titled As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy. Sources tell Time that the agency's choice for the advisory panel is Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist who also wrote, with his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which puts "an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommends specific Scripture readings and prayers for such ailments as headaches and premenstrual syndrome. Though his resume describes Hager as a University of Kentucky professor, a university official says Hager's appointment is part time and voluntary and involves working with interns at Lexington's Central Baptist Hospital, not the university itself. In his private practice, two sources familiar with it say, Hager refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. Hager did not return several calls for comment. FDA advisory panels often have near-final say over crucial health questions. If Hager becomes chairman of the 11-member Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, he will lead its study of hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women, one of the biggest controversies in health care. Some conservatives are trying to use doubts about such therapy to discredit the use of birth-control pills, which contain similar compounds. The panel also made the key recommendation in 1996 that led to approval of the "abortion pill," RU-486—a decision that abortion foes are still fighting. Hager assisted the Christian Medical Association last August in a "citizens' petition" calling upon the FDA to reverse itself on RU-486, saying it has endangered the lives and health of women. Hager was chosen for the post by FDA senior associate commissioner Linda Arey Skladany, a former drug-industry lobbyist with longstanding ties to the Bush family. Skladany rejected at least two nominees proposed by FDA staff members: Donald R. Mattison, former dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, and Michael F. Greene, director of maternal- fetal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Despite pressure from inside the FDA to make the appointment temporary, sources say, Skladany has insisted that Hager get a full four-year term. FDA spokesman Bill Pierce called Hager "well qualified." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LavenderMenace Posted October 9 Report Share Posted October 9 UGH. This is aweful. You know, bush is really starting to interfere with my plans to ignore the fact that he's actually our president for four years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuturephunk Posted October 9 Report Share Posted October 9 . . I said it once, I'll say it again . . . He's trying to hang on to some 'traditional value' system that hasn't existed in this country for decades, if ever . . . These dinosaurs are going to continually take away our rights until women have to wear burlap everything (not just sacks) and everyone making under 200K a year will have to be registered, ID'd and tagged with a tracking device . . . . . . Doesn't matter though, with the senate poised to give 'fearless leader' up there in the white house the authority to march into the middle east and destablize the whole region, I'd say theres a good change that Weapons of Mass Destruction will come into play and end it all before they have a chance to do what I mentioned above . . . . . . We fight the good fight . . . yeah . . . right. . . . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somebitch Posted October 9 Report Share Posted October 9 :puke: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faith11878 Posted October 9 Report Share Posted October 9 Sick...so glad to be a women! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugar_n_spice Posted October 9 Report Share Posted October 9 Originally posted by phuturephunk . . I said it once, I'll say it again . . . He's trying to hang on to some 'traditional value' system that hasn't existed in this country for decades, if ever . . . These dinosaurs are going to continually take away our rights until women have to wear burlap everything (not just sacks) and everyone making under 200K a year will have to be registered, ID'd and tagged with a tracking device . . . . . . Doesn't matter though, with the senate poised to give 'fearless leader' up there in the white house the authority to march into the middle east and destablize the whole region, I'd say theres a good change that Weapons of Mass Destruction will come into play and end it all before they have a chance to do what I mentioned above . . . . . . We fight the good fight . . . yeah . . . right. . . . . . . Well put. I agree 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothzane Posted October 9 Report Share Posted October 9 I can picture how this is all going to turn out...A little boy with a backwards baseball cap is going to tug his mothers arm and point up to the sky and say..."Look at the pretty cloud Mummy!"And then before Mummy has a chance to turn her head...shell be nothing more then shadows and dust...and all this crap will matter no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xpander Posted October 9 Report Share Posted October 9 Hokus! Where've you been?Anyways...Bush...don't get me started. Already had this conversation laaaaaaaaaaaate last night. WTF is Crobra? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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