Letter to the Romans

[gnimbley]

Someone just sent me something that seems to go along with what you're saying:


"FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan, M.D., today named 11 physicians to the agency's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs...President Bush has announced his intention to appoint Dr. W. David Hager to head up the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. This 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.

Your email is out of date. The guy was appointed two years ago.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hager.asp

[Bella]

Well, now I'm even more upset than before.

[DJRubberducky]

Wow, I saw that and actually wrote to NARAL asking if they knew of any laws I'd be violating by (as a married woman) get a scrip filled, then donating it to a sympathetic doctor to be given away as "samples" for women who could no longer get them.

I'd really hope that all the people using the pill for non-contraceptive purposes (acne, dangerously heavy menstruation) would be enough reason for this fucker to be held back from making his personal ban a national ban, but if not, I am SO fucking doing that.  Or at the very least hooking up one particular unmarried woman I know.

[EraPassing]

Yet another reason I voted against Bush - appointments like these.

How the hell is prayer supposed to stop a woman from bleeding like a stuck pig and being laid up in bed with monster, 2+ bottles-of-Midol's worth of cramps?
What's next, returning to the treatment of epilepsy with exorcisms?

As a woman, this Hager person angers and terrifies me.  You know what scares me more, though?  The fact that there is a Mrs. Hager out there somewhere, agreeing with what he says.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

*stabs the next poster because Bella is upset*

[DJRubberducky]

*decides to try out some of the self-defense-against-knives moves she picked up about a year ago*

I'm a little irritated.  I got a form letter politely explaining that the email was old, but nothing to address my potential civil disobedience.

Oh well.  That way they can claim plausible deniability if I stir up too much shit, I guess.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Bump, cause I miss Gnimbley.