This Is Very Frightning

[Annie]

I just received this email from my daughter, who is a physician. I think it's something that bears reading, and should be passed on.

Read this a weep, ladies, and men, too.


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 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 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, en led "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 for 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. If you oppose the placement of Hager, send an email to the White House saying so.

please forward the entire e-mail to
[email protected]

[Annie]

Would you want a doctor who would prescribe reading the Bible when you were sick?

This is fine for him, for his wife if she chooses to follow this road, or for anyone else who CHOOSES to do this. But to force women to ascribe to this is criminal and if this is what Bush is going to do, we were very right to be so upset.

[scott]

But to force women to ascribe to this is criminal and if this is what Bush is going to do, we were very right to be so upset.

I agree, but how does this gentleman or this committee actually force anyone to do anything?

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.

How does the committee actually influence a doctor to take any given course of action with his patient? The committee doesn't have any law-making power.

[Hook Dem]

Before anyone panics on the above article, I can remember when JFK was running for president in the early 60's. There were cries of "he will tell all our secrets in the confessional booth" and " he will make birth control illegal". Let's gather our senses and look at this intellegently which means gathering more facts. What I see so far is knee jerking.

[pooh]

Let's gather our senses and look at this intellegently which means gathering more facts.

Exactly

[ducks]

is he qualified ?
if he isI have no problem getting the job

[CosmicCowboy]

Annie, check this out...that e-mail is a distortion of the actual facts...

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hager.htm

[Sportcamper]

You are sooooo Naïve Cosmic...

Because iiiiiiii heard....That he has been seen in prayer meetings with John Ashcroft...Annnnd he puts covers on naked statues....Annnnnnd.....