As if you weren't already appalled....

[Lorien]

Please read.

All women need to be informed about this. Men who care about the women in their lives need to be
equally concerned.


Subject: Hager FDA appointment

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 ar e 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 [email protected]
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 (Silver
Spring,MD) 3. Audrey Funk (Henderson,NV) 4. Susan Lowe Shlisky (Las
Vegas,NV) 5. Michelle Straub-Wilensky (Los Angeles,CA) 6. Patricia
Phelan (San Francisco,CA) 7. Victoria Einhorn(san anselm! o, ca) 8 . Brad
Einhorn (Brooklyn,NY) 9. Bethany MacMillan (Brooklyn,NY) 10. Amy Russell
(Louisville,Kentucky) 11. Beverly D. Moore (Louisville,Kentucky) 12.
Connie O. Byrne (Kannapolis,North Carolina) 13. Janet C. Haas
(Charlotte,North Carolina) 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 Davis
(Santa Rosa, CA) 62. Barbara Carlson (Santa Rosa, CA) 63. Karen
Grace-Kaho (Sacramento, CA) 64. Mary Beth Love (San Francisco, CA) 65..
Ruth Fi! nnerty ( 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. Karin
Rhines (Valhalla, NY) 85. Bryan and Mary Bunch (Pleasant Valley, NY) 86.
Leslie Davis (Pleasantville, NY 87. Kathi and Kevin Gaskill
(Poughkeepsie, NY) 88. Tracy & Scott Rak (Brookfield, CT) 89. Michele
Edelstein (White Plains, NY) 90. Abigail Kendzior (Chevy Chase, MD) 91.
Stefanie Pollack (Bethesda, MD) 92. Lisa Weber (Gaithersburg, MD) 93.
Mary Garrand (Alexandria, VA) 94. Debbie Kimmelman (Alexandria, VA) 95.
Julie R. Jernigan (Arlington, VA) 96. Elizabeth Angevine, 97. Christina
Pignatelli (Arlington, Virginia), 98. Melissa Holder (Alexandria, VA),

99. Cherri Gregg (Atlanta, GA), 100. Africa Cook (Atlanta, GA) 101.Britney
Buck (Kingsport, TN), 102. Kathleen Burkland (Fort Walton Beach, FL); 103.
Susan Fentin (Conway, MA); 104.Kim Henley(Longmeadow, MA);105. Jane
Walker (Barrington, RI);
106. Dianne Savastano (Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA) 107. Leslie Lampe Long (NY, NY) 108. Corinne Anderson (Newport RI) 109. Margaret D. Comfort (Newport. RI) 110. Vivian M. Spencer (Providence, RI) 111 Alden S. Tucker (Newport, RI) 112. Ramona Flood (Brooklyn, NY), 113. Elizabeth Montgomery (Norwalk, CT), 114. Jennifer Buttenheim (Williamstown, MA)115 Frances Buttenheim (Wilmington, DE), 116, Ann Elliot (Columbus, OH)

[Pachamama]

1. And just imagine what they will do in a 2nd Term!

:scared:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. Handmaidens Tale

[MuseRider]

4. I just read that!

I thought I had read it long ago when it first came out but I saw the book in a book store while on vacation and bought it. I had not read it before and it scared the hell out of me.

[The Doctor.]

3. Back to the dark ages...

This has been making me seriously consider taking my family to another country.
All the intellectuals and progressives will flee and leave America to implode in self-righteousness.

If only I didn't feel obligated to stay and fight the good fight....

[NYCGirl]

5. This is about 2 years old, and Hager is not the chair, but is on

the committee.

More info:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/hager.htm

[BiggJawn]

6. Kiss the "Testosterone Patch" good-by...

"Think of JEEEEBUS, use Vaseline if your husband can't get his Cialis-induced Staff of Life in there and don't cry out if it hurts..."

I swear, if *I* ever became Pretzeldent, I GAH-ron-TEE you'd see your last "Prayer Breakfast"!