[Rhodes22-list] Re: politics

Thu Oct 28 07:24:37 EDT 2004

got this scary e-mail and pass it on for what it is worth:
  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 
  tha 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 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 topresident at whitehouse.gov

  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. Victo ria Einhorn(san anselmo, 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)
  9. 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 (Flo! rence, MA)
  49. Kathleen Kennedy (Santa Barbara, CA)
  gt; 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 Finnerty (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. Katherine Procopio Goodman (Katonah, NY)
  85. Jessica White (Dobbs Ferry, NY)
  86. Danielle Bottari (New York, NY)
  87. Carolyn Kleiman (Brooklyn, NY)
  88. Nicole Galluccio ( Brooklyn, NY)
  89. Krista Caiola (Brooklyn, NY)
  90. Brooke Murdock (Brooklyn, NY)
  91. Erin Woo! dward, (Montclair, NJ)
  92. Kaelan Kelly-Sordelet (Montclair, NJ )
  93. Kathleen Kelly
  94. Pauline Miller (New York, NY)
  95. Carolyn Fink (New York, NY)
  96. Leigh Trucks (Westport, CT)
  97. Sasha F. Kaye (New York, NY)
  98. Sarah A. Moran (New York, NY)
  99. Eleanor Connolly
  100. Elizabeth Hannaford
  101. Joan Nolan
  102. Julie Johns (Minneapolis, MN)
  103. Jeanne J, Cassin (Groton, MA)
  104. Frances E. Costigan (Seattle, WA)
  105. Nancy L. Danoff (Seattle, WA)
  106. Eve Rumpf-Sternberg (Seattle, WA)
  107. Laurie A. Bent (Weston, MA)
  108. Dea Fa Angiolillo (Dedham, MA)
  109. Cheryl K. Warner (Brookline, MA)
  110. Shelley Lipschultz (Brookline, MA)
  111. Jane B. Brown (Brookline, MA)
  112. Alison Donta (Amherst, MA)
  113. Ann Benner (Bethesda, MD)
  114. Amy Raymond (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  115. Kevin Cregan(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  116. Tessa Chandler (New York, NY)
  117. Carol Rosenstiel (Birmingham, AL)
  118.Judy Jenks (Atlanta, GA)
  119. Donna Becker (Atlanta, GA)
  120. Nan Becker (Stillwater, NJ)
  121. Margot Paddock (Pittsfield, MA)
  122. Helen Goddard ( South Dartmouth, MA )
  123. Kimberly Goddard (Millis, MA)
  124.Suzanne A Gebelein (Walpole, MA)
  125. Anna G. Keegan (Lunenburg, MA)
  126.  Patricia Harris, MD (Asbury, NJ)
  128. Polly Harris (Charlotte VT)
  129. Jeanne Sturim(Providence, RI)
  130. Joan Slafsky(Providence, RI)
  131. Melanie Coon (Providence, RI)
  132. Isabelle Hunter (Providence, RI)
  133. Georgia Hunter (Atlanta, GA)
  134. Amanda Tolleson (Atlanta, GA) 
  135. Peri Edelstein (Atlanta, GA) 
  136.  Heather Bellow (Great Barrington, MA)
  137. Alan Papscun (S. Egremont, MA)
  138. Robert S. Caine (S. Egremont, MA)

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