Got PMS? Read the bible...

[KansDem]

I originally posted this thread in the Health/Education/Social Policy forum, but considering its timeliness with regard to recent Bush proclamations of "political capital" and "bi-partisanship," I thought the subject matter will fit in nicely here...


Bush to appoint Dr. W. David Hager as head of FDA Reproductive Medicine Section.

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, 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.

http://infertility.about.com/od/controversyconundrums/a...

Folks, they're coming out of the woodwork!

[LisaLynne]

1. Beating that guy ...

over the head with a bible might help my PMS. I dunno. I'd have to try it.

[annabanana]

5. ...sounds like a cure to ME..lol

[seraph]

2. You know what?

I hope they DO come out of the woodwork.


NOTHING will change this country more than a bunch of really pissed off women.

[dirtyduck]

3. pissed off with no relief from PMS makes them even worse!

[annabanana]

4. freaky freaky freaky....

There are lots of these little goodies just waiting to get us gals back into the kitchen, barefoot & pregnant.....

next up? peterpan collars & circle pins? or will we go straight to burkhas?

[MuseRider]

6. Missle shaped bras

and hoop petticoats?

[troubleinwinter]

7. "refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women"

Writing a check to Planned Parenthood now.

[Contrary1]

8. hahahaha

The Repub women reap what they sow...
I'm willing to suffer, just to get even with them.

[greekspeak]

9. Lets see what happens in 2006

A few women in America might not like being barefoot and pregnant at gunpoint.