Please read and if you agree sign and forward

I recieved this email from a couple of friends. I find it utterly disturbing. If you are in agreeance please sign and forward this to your friends and family.


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 hima 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 polit! ics and religion.

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.







91. Helen Klonaris (Coral Gables, FL)
92. Amanda Lowe (Boston, MA)93. Evelyn G. Wertenberger (Wheat Ridge, CO)
94. Carol Farina, RN (Lakewood, CO)
95. Carol McManus, (Grand Junction, CO)
96. May Chism-Braselton (Basalt, CO)
97. Amy Larkin (Jackson, WY)
98. Claudia Eberspacher (Fort Collins, CO)
99. Samantha Murphy (Fort Collins, CO)
100. Melissa Selby (Fort Collins, CO)
101. Shauna C. Davis-Hunter (Loveland, CO)
102. Keith Colton (Fort Collins, CO)
103. Sherry WeMott Colton (Fort Collins, CO)
104. Nicole Steed (Fort Collins, CO)
105. Katherine Dykstra (New York, NY)
106. Loreena White (Jersey City, NJ)
107. Marly Kurtzer (Brooklyn, NY)
108. Nadia Giuliano (NY, NY)
109. Nanda Prabhakar (Brooklyn, NY)
110. Deborah W. Paris (Cleveland, OH)
111. David Paris (Venice, CA)
112. Cinda Rosenberg (Pacific Palisades, CA)
113. Madeline Gold (Los Angeles, CA)
114. Stefanie Roth (Los Angeles, CA)
115. Amie Gleed (Los Angeles, CA)
116. Holly Rhode (Chicago, IL)
117. Ruth Dickinson (Kenosha, WI)
118. Jeff Doenges (Bethesda, MD)
119. Jennifer M. Hernandez (New York, NY)
120. Sejin Kim (New York, NY)
121. James Vinett (New York, NY)
122. Dante Mastri (New York, NY)
123. Seth Schaberg (New York, NY)
124. Lee Schaberg (Saline, Mi.)
125. Susan Elliott (Ypsilanti, MI)
126. James Galligan (Livonia,MI)
127. (The Rev.) Mark A. Jenkins
128. (The Rev.) Linda Northcraft (Southfield, MI)
129. Ellen Ehrlich (Southfield, MI)
130. Eileen McGreevy (Bloomfield, MI)
131. Anne Switzer (Royal Oak, MI)
132. Courtney Lee Adams Jr. (New York, NY)
133. Donna Knipp (New York, NY)
134. Fran Sanders (Houston, TX)
135. Sandra Lloyd (Houston, TX)
136. Becky Soria ( Bellaire, TX )
137. Jana Rosenbaum (Houston, TX)
138. Eliza Howard (Houston, TX)
139. Dawn Finley (Houston, TX)
140. Philip Lee (New York, NY)
141. Roxana Ramseur (New York, NY)
142. Brett Bara (New York, NY)
143. Rachel Manis (New York, NY)
144. Kristin Capuano (New York, NY)
145. Lauren Solomon (New York, NY)
146. Jenna Farkas (New York, NY)
147. Susan Werbe (New York, NY)
148. Marion Matison (Los Angeles, CA)
149. James Matison (Los Angeles, CA)
150. A. Zorel Paritzky (Los Angeles, CA)
151. Adina Paritzky (Los Angeles)
152. Shira Elias (Los Angeles, CA)
153. Alexander Elias (Los Angeles, CA)
154. Ariel Margolis (Los Angeles, CA)
155. Heather Bogdanoff Baker (New York, NY)
156. Amy Saperstein (New York, NY)
157. Karen Frome (New York, NY)
158. Helen Goddard (New York, NY)
159. Nelida Nassar (Boston, MA)
160. Nadine Nassar (New York, NY)



161. Mindy Stover (Sacramento, CA)
162. Susan Egan (Los Angeles, CA)

163. Richard Roland (New York, NY)

164. Gregg Goodbrod (NYC)
165. Elaine Brier (New York, NY)

166. Jenifer Kruskamp Krisstinson
167. Heidi Weyhmueller-Gaspin (New York-New York)

Re: Please read and if you agree sign and forward

I received this forward the other day and looked it up online at www.truthorfiction.com. I found out that this is an e-mail from a year ago, and while this man unfortunately sits on the committee, he was not made the chairman.

Re: Please read and if you agree sign and forward

Ive heard of this too and everyone Ive asked about it says it will never happen.