bush vs. bush: the battle wages on...

my god lays in her
heaven weeping for those lost
in every god's name.


this is the body of an email i just received. now, i can remember reading a magazine article on this man many moons ago and thinking that he was a monster who i never wanted within one hundred miles of my reproductive system, and here's my feckless thug of a president prepared to hand over every womb in the nation, if not the globe, not that it surprises me in the least. greg tells me that appointments have already been made and Hager is not the current chairman, but he is on the committee. i still don't like it.



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 and 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.




no woman deserves less. stand up, ladies, men who love their ladies, tell these people to keep their christ out of our coochies.


oh, and if you love me, i was accepted to my publishing internship today. if you don't, well, your negative vibes didn't keep me from being accepted to my publishing internship today.