from mcsweeny's again, this one is intersting... in abible thumping sort of way...
In 2002, President Bush appointed Dr. W. David Hager to a Food and Drug Administration panel on women's health; this June, Bush renewed the appointment. Hager is the author of As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now and (with his wife, Linda) Stress and the Woman's Body, which recommends prayer for the treatment of headaches and premenstrual syndrome. He has criticized the birth-control pill for promoting promiscuity.
Last December, when the panel considered permitting the morning-after pill called Plan B to be sold over the counter, Hager argued that the pill had not been adequately tested on adolescents. Another physician on the panel called Plan B "the safest product that we have seen brought before us," and the committee recommended that it be sold without a prescription by a vote of 23-4. In May, the FDA disregarded that recommendation and the endorsements of other FDA staff members and refused to allow Plan B to be sold over the counter. The rationale provided in the rejection letter was "inadequate sampling of younger age groups."
Dr. Alastair Wood, who voted for approval of Plan B as part of the FDA's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee, said that "there's no evidence that this drug has different side effects in younger girls." James Trussell, the director of Princeton University's Office of Population Research, said that the stated FDA justification for rejection was a "political fig leaf," and that scores of drugs, as well as contraceptives such as the vaginal sponge and the female condom, were approved without data on specific age groups.
(Sources: Karen Tumulty, "Jesus and the FDA," Time (online edition), October 5, 2002. See article at: time.com. Chris Mooney, "Christian Science?" Mother Jones, September/October 2004. See article at: motherjones.com.)
In 2002, President Bush appointed Dr. W. David Hager to a Food and Drug Administration panel on women's health; this June, Bush renewed the appointment. Hager is the author of As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now and (with his wife, Linda) Stress and the Woman's Body, which recommends prayer for the treatment of headaches and premenstrual syndrome. He has criticized the birth-control pill for promoting promiscuity.
Last December, when the panel considered permitting the morning-after pill called Plan B to be sold over the counter, Hager argued that the pill had not been adequately tested on adolescents. Another physician on the panel called Plan B "the safest product that we have seen brought before us," and the committee recommended that it be sold without a prescription by a vote of 23-4. In May, the FDA disregarded that recommendation and the endorsements of other FDA staff members and refused to allow Plan B to be sold over the counter. The rationale provided in the rejection letter was "inadequate sampling of younger age groups."
Dr. Alastair Wood, who voted for approval of Plan B as part of the FDA's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee, said that "there's no evidence that this drug has different side effects in younger girls." James Trussell, the director of Princeton University's Office of Population Research, said that the stated FDA justification for rejection was a "political fig leaf," and that scores of drugs, as well as contraceptives such as the vaginal sponge and the female condom, were approved without data on specific age groups.
(Sources: Karen Tumulty, "Jesus and the FDA," Time (online edition), October 5, 2002. See article at: time.com. Chris Mooney, "Christian Science?" Mother Jones, September/October 2004. See article at: motherjones.com.)
stina:
this article makes me sick. .. but not half as sick as dr. crappy liar jerkface david hager and his stupid brainwashed wife.