[WomensExchange] Re: FW: Jesus and the FDA
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- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:25:53 -0800 (PST)
Connie - I am a believer of Jesus Christ.
Connie Rose <connie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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From: Laura
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:29:48 -0800
To: Constance Hannah Rose , Carol
, Elizabeth , Susan
Bowers , Sis , Kathleen
Farmer , Molly , Jill Hansen
, Kate , barbara
, Tiffany , Rita
, Sandy Snake , Sallie
Subject: FW: Jesus and the FDA
Subject: FW: Jesus and the FDA
Please read the attached article regarding the proposal to appoint Dr. W.
David Hager as head of an FDA panel on women's health policy. This guy is
scary!
TIME.com: Jesus and the FDA
If after
reading this article, you agree that Hager is not an appropriate choice, you
may wish to send an email to the white house by using the following link:
Sample Letter - FDA Nominee Dr. W. David Hager
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 has 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's views of reproductive health care are far outside the mainstream
of setback for reproductive technology. Dr. Hager is a practicing OB/GYN who
describes himself as "pro-life" and refuses to prescribe contraceptives to
unmarried women. 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.
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. Hagar's mission is
religiously motivated. He has an ardent interest in revoking approval for
mifepristone (formerly known as RU-486) as a safe and early form of medical
abortion. Hagar recently assisted the Christian Medical Association in a
"citizen's petition" which calls upon the FDA to revoke its approval of
mifepristone in the name of women's health.
Hager's desire to overturn mifepristone's approval on religious grounds
rather than scientific merit would halt the development of mifepristone as a
treatment for numerous medical conditions disproportionately affecting
women, including breast cancer, uterine
cancer, uterine fibroid tumors, psychotic depression, bipolar depression and
Cushing's syndrome.
Women rely on the FDA to ensure their access to safe and effective drugs for
reproductive health care including products that prevent pregnancy. For some
women, such as those with certain types of diabetes and those undergoing
treatment for cancer
pregnancy can be a life-threatening condition.
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.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
1. SEND THIS TO EVERY PERSON WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
2. OPPOSE THE PLACEMENT OF THIS MAN BY CONTACTING THE WHITE
HOUSE AND TELL THEM HE IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE ON ANY LEVEL.
Please email President Bush at president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or call the White
House at (202) 456-1111 or (202) 456-1414 and say:
"I oppose the appointment of Dr. Hager to the FDA Reproductive Health Drugs
Advisory Committee. Mixing religion and medicine is unacceptable. Using the
FDA to promote a political agenda is inappropriate and seriously threatens
all women's health."
Do it!
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