women's reproductive rights
Harry Edwards
austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Tue Nov 9 11:37:39 2004
President Bush has announced his plan to select Dr. W. David Hager to=20
head up the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Reproductive Health=20
Drugs Advisory Committee. The committee has not met for more than two=20
years, during which time its charter lapsed. As a result, the Bush=20
Administration is tasked with filling all eleven positions with new=20
members. This position does not require Congressional approval. The=20
FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee makes crucial=20
decisions on matters relating to drugs used in the practice of=20
obstetrics, gynecology and related specialties, including hormone=20
therapy, contraception, treatment for infertility, and medical=20
alternatives to surgical procedures for sterilization and pregnancy=20
termination. Dr. Hager, the author of "As Jesus Cared for Women:=20
Restoring Women Then and Now." The book blends biblical accounts of=20
Christ healing Women with case studies from Hager's practice. His views=20=
of reproductive health care are far outside the mainstream for=20
reproductive technology.
Dr. Hager is a practicing OB/GYN who describes himself as "pro-life"=20
and refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. In the book=20=
Dr. Hager wrote with his wife, entitled "Stress and the Woman's Body,"=20=
he suggests that women who suffer from premenstrual syndrome should=20
seek help from reading the bible and praying. As an editor and=20
contributing author of "The Reproduction Revolution: A Christian=20
Appraisal of Sexuality Reproductive Technologies and the Family," Dr.=20
Hager appears to have endorsed the medically inaccurate assertion that=20=
the common birth control pill is an abortifacient. We are concerned=20
that Dr. Hager's strong religious beliefs may color his assessment of=20
technologies that are necessary to protect women's lives to preserve=20
and promote women's health. Hager's track record of using religious=20
beliefs to guide his medical decision-making makes him a dangerous and=20=
inappropriate candidate to serve as chair of this committee. Critical=20
drug public policy and research must not be held hostage.
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email; then sign your name below.
After you sign, SEND THIS TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO IS CONCERNED=20
ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
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please forward the entire e-mail to president@whitehouse.gov We oppose=20=
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=20=
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)
11. Beverly D. Moore (Louisville, Kentucky)
12. Connie O. Byrne (Kannapolis, North Carolina)
13. Janet C. Haas (Charlotte, North Carolina)
14. Heather V Rana (Charlotte, NC)
15. Clare M. Evans (Newport, A)
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)
85. Jessica White (Dobbs Ferry, NY)
86. Danielle Bottari (New York,NY)
87. Jennifer Getschmann (New York, NY)
88. Sung Pak (New York, NY)
89. Sharon Pak (New York, NY)
90. Pamela Gold (Jersey City, NJ)
91. Mindy Drossner (Lafayette Hill, PA)
92. Stephanie Choder (Gladwyne, PA)
93. Robin Stern (Lafayette Hill, PA)
94. Emily Newman (Syracuse, NY)
95. Mark Stern (Syracuse, NY)
96. Robin Fink (Philadelphia, PA 19102)
97. Greg Rosen (New York, NY)
98, Durelle Schacter (San MAteo, CA)
99. rachel stewart (san anselmo ca)
100 Joyce Goldstein ( San Francisco)
101 Kate Slate (New York city)
102 Mardee Regan (Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY)
103 Brad Mehldau (Newburgh, NY)
104. Augusta Quirk (Summerland,CA)
105. Carolyn Furlong (St. Babs,CA)
106. Alexandra Morath (Santa Barbara, CA)
107. Talia Camarena (New York, NY)
108. Stuart Baldwin (New York, NY)
109. Julie Clarke (Chapel Hill, NC)
110. Vivian Chen (Chapel Hill, NC)
111. Sheryl Trager (New York, NY)
112. Debra Carbonaro (New York, NY)
113. Bowie Maksrivorawa (New York, NY)
114. Dawn Wetzel (Memphis, TN)
115. Posey Hedges (Memphis, TN)
116. Jim Spake (Memphis, TN)
117. Charlie Wood (Memphis, TN)
118. Kathy Kosins (Birmingham, Michigan)
119. Dan Pliskow (Royal Oak, Mi.)
120. Susan B. Anderson (Pacifica, CA)
121. Laurence D. Anderson (Pacifica,CA)
122. Irene Spang (San Francisco, CA)
123. John L. Spang (San Francisco, CA)
124. Katherine Albrecht (San Francisco, CA)
125. Suzane Kavert (San Francisco, CA)
126. Chris Kavert (San Francisco, CA)
127. Holly Milne (San Francisco, CA)
128. Emma Tresemer ( San Francisco, CA)
129. Jennifer Black (Boulder, CO)
130. Jesse Ritch (Boulder, CO)
131. Lily Fessenden (Searsmont, ME)
132. Terrence Keeney (East Montpelier, VT)
133. Penelope Stout-Hammar (Milton, VT)
134. Susannah Hammar (Medford, MA)
135. Leslie Stephenson (Riverdale, NY)
136. Marisa Mann (Woodmere, NY)
137. Stacey Ganina (Riverdale, NY)
138. Alex Kehl (New York, NY)
139. Elissa Leonard (Freeport, ME)
140. Maria Dewees (Waltham, MA)
141. Bennet Leon (Sudbury, MA)
142. Maria Jenness (Newport, VT)
145. Allie Leib (Ridgefield, CT)
146. Mathy Mezey (Ardsley, NY)
147. Ariel Samuelson (Newton, MA)
148. Lucy Joffe (Newton, MA)
149. Jake Joffe (Newotn, MA)
150. Robert L. Klein (Newton, MA)
151. Kenneth Leeser (Newton, MA)
152. Melinda Brown (Newton, MA)
153. Kathryn Bender
154. Stephen Bober
155. Melanie Lukens-Bober (Sudbury, MA)
156. Tina Lane (New York, NY),
157. Erika Lane (Westchester, NY)
158. Jennifer Prosky (Bellmore, NY),
159. Elizabeth LaMont (Scarsdale, NY),
160. Julie Stein (Providence, RI)
161. Charlotte Levy (Providence, RI)
162. Katie Ogden (Providence, RI)
163. Carson Phillips (Sewanee, TN)
164. Jason Jones (Sewanee, TN)
165.=A0 Ellen Murphy (Sewanee, TN)
166. Maggie Halpern (Sewanee, TN)
167. Lauren Anderson (Sewanee, TN)
168. Sarah Pruett (Sewanee, TN)
169. Elizabeth Pruett (Rome, GA)
170. Donna Minich (Americus, GA)
171.=A0 Kathy Patterson (Los Alamos, NM)
172. Bernadette FitzPatrick (Baton Rouge, LA)
173. Harry A. Edwards (Austin, TX)