Women's Health Rights

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I got this email today. Please copy/paste it and start your own email petition

to

be forwarded on to the white house.

I wont even start to make my comments on it. the anger does not get us

anywhere.....just please pass this one on.

We can flood email, snail mail, phone calls and just basically annoy the living

crap out of them maybe by '08 we can make some progress to stop BS like

this.

 

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

President Bush has announced his intention to appoint Dr. W. David Hager to

head up the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Reproductive Health

Drugs

Advisory Committee. This 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 is 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 health care are far outside

the mainstream for reproductive technology and modern gynecological

practice. 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 (causes abortion). 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. Dr. 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 anti-abortion 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.

 

There is something you can do. Below is a letter to be sent to the White

House, opposing the placement of Hager. Please copy all the text of this

message and paste it into a fresh email; then sign your name below and

SEND

THIS TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT

WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

 

Every 100th person please forward e-mail to president

 

I oppose the appointment of Dr. W. David Hager to the FDA Reproductive

Health Drugs Advisory Committee. Mixing religion and medicine is

unacceptable in a policy-making position. Using the FDA to promote a

political agenda is inappropriate and seriously threatens women's health.

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.