Reply #28: OK, I had some of the details wrong

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but not too wrong.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Feminist Majority Foundation joins a coalition of women’s groups and Congressional leaders at a press conference today on Capitol Hill to tell the Bush Administration that a doctor who gives theology precedence over science should not be appointed as chair or a member of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee.
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In a Focus on the Family article written in response to the Andrea Yates case, entitled "Beyond Baby Blues: Is Post Partum Depression a Diagnosis or an Excuse," Hager makes no mention of the biological causes of this disease. Instead, he names guilt and post partum unattractiveness as causes, and recommends paternal involvement and reading of Scriptures.

"Dr. Hager must not be allowed to turn back the clock on women’s healthcare policy in the US," said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. "Faith healers used to be confined to gospel tents. Now we want to put them in the highest offices of NIH and the FDA. Enough is enough."
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7074


BTW, he did get the appointment:
Despite fervent protests from a multitude of feminist and women’s groups and key members of Congress, W. David Hager, an anti-abortion rights doctor who mixes the practice of medicine and religion, was among eleven physicians appointed Tuesday to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs. Hager, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Kentucky, is a member of the Christian Medical Association (CMA) and represented the group in its recent petition to the FDA seeking an immediate ban on mifepristone (also known as RU-486 and the “abortion pill”) as well as a complete review of its approval.
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7384