Foodie Chickie

My friend Jennifer sent me this and besides forwarding it to everyone on my mailing list I thought I would post it as well. Please read this, copy it and email it to everyone you know. And if you are the tenth person to get the email please forward the entire e-mail to president@whitehouse.gov. It is important!! Thank you.

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 is 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
president@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.

On a lighter note the People's Choice Awards will be airing on Saturday, Jan. 9th on CBS. Go vote for your favorite film, TV show and celebrity. It was difficult for me to choose who I liked best in some categories.