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Marianne
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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 that 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 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Victoria Einhorn(san anselmo, ca)
8. Brad Einhorn (Brooklyn,NY)
9. Bethany MacMillan (Brooklyn,NY)
10. Amy Russell (Louisville,Kentucky)
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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)
39. 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 (Florence, MA)
49. Kathleen Kennedy (Santa Barbara, CA)
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)
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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. Stuart J. Danoff (Stamford,CT)
107. Joan B. Danoff (Stamford, CT)
108. Patricia B. Debrovner (New York, NY)
109. Charles H. Debrovner, M.D. (New York, NY)
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113. Elena Cates (Pacific Palisades, CA)
114. Tracy Seretean (Pacific Palisades, CA/Atlanta, GA)
115. Susan Allen (Atlanta, GA)
116. Donald Thea (Boston, MA)117. J.S. Weisfeld (Rochester, VT)118. Bob Costantino (Montpelier, VT)
Susan Allen MD MPH
Professor of International Health
Emory University
Rollins School of Public Health
Dept. of International Health
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