I'm snipping/plucking out sentences from the article, with commets following - Debbi
--- The Fool wrote: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,361521,00.html > > Jesus and the FDA > BY KAREN TUMULTY > Saturday, Oct. 05, 2002 > A quiet battle is raging over the Bush > Administration's plan to appoint... > Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist > who also wrote, with > his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which > puts "an emphasis on > the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" > and recommends > specific Scripture readings and prayers for such > ailments as headaches and premenstrual syndrome. If you believe it helps, it probably will; but when I have a particularly nasty cycle I want _drugs_. [Naproxefen is a divine gift in that regard! :)] > In his private practice, two sources... > say, Hager refuses to > prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. Oh *that's* brilliant - but what he does in his own practice affects only those blind enough to go to him; to have a male like this in charge of _women's_ health is *unacceptable* -- just as having a female who states that 'all men are potential rapists' would be unfit to preside over anything to do with men's health. > ...the 11-member Reproductive Health > Drugs Advisory Committee, re: hormone-replacement > therapy for menopausal women, one of the biggest > controversies in health care... I haven't seen any recent studies on *cyclic* hormone replacement therapy (ie. _not daily_ estrogen and progesterone, but *cycled*, as it is in the premenopausal woman), but I'll bet that it has a much better health profile. > Some conservatives are trying to use doubts > about such therapy to > discredit the use of birth-control pills, which > contain similar compounds. Birth control pills have killed far fewer women than pregnancy (I posted CDC and other data regarding this in a previous post). > Hager assisted the Christian Medical > Association last > August in a "citizens' petition" calling upon the > FDA to reverse itself > on RU-486, saying it has endangered the lives and > health of women. See the above comment. > Hager was chosen for the post by FDA senior > associate commissioner Linda > Arey Skladany, a former drug-industry lobbyist with > longstanding ties to > the Bush family. Skladany rejected at least two > nominees proposed by FDA > staff members: Donald R. Mattison, former dean of > the University of > Pittsburgh School of Public Health, and Michael F. > Greene, director of > maternal- fetal medicine at Massachusetts General > Hospital. Despite > pressure from inside the FDA to make the appointment > temporary, sources > say, Skladany has insisted that Hager get a full > four-year term. FDA > spokesman Bill Pierce called Hager "well qualified." <very grim smile> But well qualified for _what_? Time to take the reins, girlfriends - we're being driven at a gallop into a trap. >:o Deborah Marlenesdottir Icelandic Surname Maru __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
