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FW: FDA Appointee

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Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:04 AM

FW: FDA Appointee

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please read and then copy and paste this message into a new email. Add

your name at the bottom and send to all your friends and relatives who care!!!

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FDA Appointee

Tue, 9 Nov 2004 06:49:04 -0800 (PST)

 

 

Dear all,

 

This is important to our futures:

 

I believe it is important that we speak out loud and clear for the

next four years....please read, sign and forward. It's for women's

rights.

 

 

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 reproductive 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.

 

There is something you can do. Below is a statement to

be sent to the White House, opposing the placement of Hager.

 

(1) Please copy and paste (DON'T forward) the entire

email into a fresh email ; then sign your name below.

 

After you sign, SEND THIS TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO

IS CONCERNED ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

 

(2) Every 10th person who signs the list (i.e., #10,

#20, #30, etc.) - please forward the entire e-mail to

president

 

__________

 

We 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.

 

1. Susan Tannenbaum (Owings Mills,Maryland)

 

2. Susan Levine (SilverSpring,MD)

 

3. Audrey Funk (Henderson,NV)

 

4. Susan Lowe Shlisky (LasVegas,NV)

 

5. Michelle Straub-Wilensky (Los Angeles,CA)

 

6. Patricia Phelan (San Francisco,CA)

 

7. Victoria Einhorn(san anselmo, ca)

 

8. Brad Einhorn(Brooklyn,NY)

 

9. Bethany MacMillan (Brooklyn,NY)

 

10. Amy Russell(Louisville,Kentucky)

 

11. Beverly D. Moore (Louisville,Kentucky)

 

12.Co!nnie O. Byrne (Kannapolis,North Carolina)

 

13. Janet C. Haas (Charlotte, NorthCarolina)

 

14. Heather Vrana (Charlotte,NC)

 

15. Clare M. Evans (Newport,VA)

 

16.Kathy Chadwick

 

17.Jim Chadwick

 

18.Claire Grimm Chadwick

 

19.Lindsay Addison (Naples,FL)

 

20. Peggy Addison (Naples,FL)

 

21. David Addison(Naples,FL)

 

22. Howard Schumsky (Orlando,FL)

 

23.Kristie Born (Orlando,FL)

 

24. Paul Boyd (Atlantic Highlands,NJ)

 

25. Lois Jensen (NYC, NY)

 

26. Catherine Rubenstein (Belvedere, CA)

 

27. Anne Rubenstein (Belvedere, CA)

 

28. Dirk Rubenstein (Belvedere, CA)

 

29. Barbara K.Westover (Oakland, CA)

 

30. Sharon Bjornson (Oakland, CA)

 

31. Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell (Philadelphia, PA)

 

32. Hana Elwell (Brooklyn, NY)

 

33. Jen Song (Brooklyn, NY)

 

34. Janet Lo (New York, NY)

 

35. Emily Horowitz (New York, NY)

 

36.Daniel Horowitz (New York,NY)

 

37. Josh Hyman (New York, NY)

 

38. Mona Goldsmith (Plainview, NY)

 

39. Kate Striano (Newtown, CT)

 

40. Elissa Gellis (Newtown, CT)

 

41. Diane Thompson (Sandy Hook, CT)

 

42. LInda Parsloe (Sandy Hook, CT)

 

43. Judy Juracek (Darien, CT)

 

44. Deborah Meisels (City Island, NY)

 

45. P. Briggs Saroch (Greenfield, MA)

 

46. Diane Fisher-Katz (Northampton, MA)

 

47. Kirsten Cirincione (Florence, MA)

 

48. Jane Lynch (Florence,MA)

 

49. Kathleen Kennedy (Santa Barbara, CA)

 

50. Leslie Palmer (San Antonio,TX)

 

51. Julie Toland, Middletown, RI

 

52. Josie Merck,( Cos Cob, CT)

 

53. Elizabeth O'Neill (Boston, MA)

 

54. Joan O'Neill (Traverse City, MI)

 

55. Barbara Becker (Concord, CA)

 

56. Ken Bruckmeier (Oakland,CA)

 

57.Margret Elson (Oakland, CA)

 

58, Marsha Sherman (Portland, OR)

 

59. Marinell Eva (Santa Rosa, CA)

 

60. Sharon Oman (Petaluma, CA)

 

61. Adrienne Dav! is (Santa Rosa, CA)

 

62. Barbara Carlson (Santa Rosa, CA)

 

63. Karen Grace-Kaho (Sacramento, CA)

 

64. Mary Beth Love (San Francisco, CA)

 

65. Ruth Finnerty (Oakland, CA)

 

66. Rosalie Holtz

 

67. Kay Corlett (Albany, CA)

 

68. Connie Barnes (Oakley, CA)

 

69. Donna Ventura (Brentwood, CA)

 

70. Nancy Herman(Lafayette,CA)

 

71. Shirley Chang (Berkeley, CA)

 

72. Nola Chavez (El Cerrito,CA)

 

73. Elspeth Wells (Clayton, CA)

 

74. Phyllis Berger (Los Angeles, CA)

 

75. Joan Barnett (Boston, Ma.)

 

76. Karen Danaher(Los Angeles,CA

 

77. Susan Rice (New York, NY)

 

78. Alan Wagner (New York, NY)

 

79. Jane Altman (New York, NY)

 

80. Sheila Friedman (Yardley, PA)

 

81. Susan Cooper (Brookfield, CT)

 

82. Elissa Fisher (Pleasantville, NY)

 

83. Angela Usobiaga (Pleasantville, NY)

 

84. Katherine Pro! copio Goodman (Katonah, NY)

 

85. Karen Ursitti (Danbury,CT)

 

86. Donna Kaspak (St. James, NY)

 

87. Ellen Feig

 

88. Raina Feig(MT.Sinai,NY)

 

89. Lauren Askinasi(Mt.Sinai,NY)

 

90. Adena Mansback (Manchester, NH)

 

91.Wendy Mansback (Manchester, NH)

 

92. Arlene Fishbein (Manchester, NH)

 

93. Audrey Kudler (Manchester, NH)

 

94. Johanna Varner (Boston, MA)

 

95.Kathleen Digre (Salt Lake City, Utah)

 

96. Lynn K. Pershing (Salt Lake City, Utah)

 

97. Edith O. Kochenour (Salt Lake City, Utah)

 

98. Leslie Zaricor Carey (Salt Lake City, Utah)

 

99. Catherine C. Voytovich RN (Salt Lake City, Utah)

 

100. & nb! sp; Karen Curtin (Salt Lake City, Utah)

 

101. Tracey M. Douthett (Park City, UT)

 

102. Nancy Pottish

 

103. Diana Papageorge (Manchester NH)

 

104. Barbara Kurz (Falmouth, MA)

 

105. JoAnn Fishbein (Falmouth, MA)

 

106. Jodi Swartz (Sudbury, MA)

 

107. Wendy Sternburg (Sudbury, MA)

 

108. Sheryl Schlackman

 

109. Tracy Cassidy (Hopkinton, MA)

 

110. Roberta Solomon (New York, NY )

 

111.Roberta Julien (Jackson,Wy.)

 

112.Joann Perahia (Port Washington, NY)

 

113. Amy Booth (Port Washington, NY)

 

114. Lisa Gulino (Huntington, NY)

 

115. Mary Kelly (Huntington NY)

 

116. Ann Rathkopf (Huntington, NY)

 

117.Alexa Fischer (San Diego, CA)

 

118. Erin Fowler (San Diego, CA)

 

119.Janelle Broadbent

 

120 Brooke Walker, New Hampton, NH.

 

121. Gail Roberts (Northwood, NH)

 

122. Dana Mackey (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla)

 

123. Helen Spitzer (Glen Allen, VA)

 

124 Leila Youmans (Prince George, VA)

 

125. Jocelyn McRae (Gilbert, AZ),

 

126. Deborah Mars (Big Horn, WY)

 

127. Penny Gaither (Bloomington, IN)

 

128. Francie Hurst (Bloomington, IN)

 

129. Kristina Makowski (Bloomington, IN)

 

130. Sharon McGhee (Overland Park KS)

 

131. Maureen Davis (Overland Park, KS)

 

132. Julie R. Hall (Fairway, KS)

 

133. Teresa LaManno (Kansas City, Mo.)

 

134. Katherine G. Thompson (Philadelphia, PA)

 

135. Christine B. Kane (Philadelphia, PA)

 

136. Lauren Simmons

 

137. Brooke Owens (New York, NY)

 

138. Elizabeth Streicker (New York, NY)

 

139. Alice Carey (Boston, MA)

 

140. Meredith Patin (Boston, MA)

 

141. Emily O'Neil (Boston, MA)

 

142. Allison McGrath (Boston, MA)

 

143. Corinna Culler (Boston, MA)

 

144. Kathy Lituri (Boston, MA)

 

145. Natalie Hagel (Boston, MA)

 

146. Jacqui Morton (Boston, MA)

 

147. Gina Belli (Boston, MA)

 

148. Jordan Lonegren (Oakland, CA)

 

149. Darlene Zavalney, (San Pedro, CA)

 

150. Jane Baddley (Alameda, CA)

 

151. Patricia Colburn (Alameda, CA)

 

152. Valerie Ruma (Alameda, CA)

 

153. Meg Edelson (Mill Valley, CA)

 

154. Roslyn Evans (Cheshire, CT)

 

155. Etta Fainblatt (Doylestown, PA)

 

156. Alisa Shain (UpperHolland, PA)

 

157. Caryn Reape (Chalfont, PA)

 

158. Suna Barlas (Souderton, PA)

 

159. Susan K Brenneman (Lansdale, PA)

 

160. Rachel B Derstine (Schwenksville, PA)

 

161 Grace Lynch (Abington, PA)

 

162. Shirley Mason (Chapel Hill, NC)

 

163. Robert Mason (Chapel Hill, NC)

 

164. Brenda Denzler (Chapel Hill, NC)

 

 

 

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