[Rhodes22-list] Re: politics

Thu Oct 28 08:30:37 EDT 2004

For another perspective on this, (read non-left wing fear mongering) go to:

http://www.nationalreview.com/lopez/lopez101502.asp

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:24:37 -0400, stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
> 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)
> 
>      stan/gbi
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