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 president@whitehouse.gov
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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 president@whitehouse.gov
<http://by18fd.bay18.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=b4
d15c7481cd1a1a1c1f2b1c0ceaf6a3&mailto=1&to=president@whitehouse.gov&msg=MSG1
099867186.41&start=1187044&len=11085&src=&type=x>