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Mon, 2005-08-01 10:31
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Bush Circumvents Senate, Appoints Bolton

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/bush_administration

WASHINGTON - President Bush sidestepped the Senate and installed embattled nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, ending a five-month impasse with Democrats who accused Bolton of abusing subordinates and twisting intelligence to fit his conservative ideology. "This post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war and a vital debate about UN reform," Bush said. He said Bolton had his complete confidence.

Of course, he had to do that... that makes me so mad. I don't like Bolton. He brings way to hardcore conservative views into everything. There is one guy - I think he's some director for the FDA and he said the best way for women to get rid of menstrual cramps is to read the bible. I really wish he could go through cramps... argh. :?

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Tue, 2005-08-02 02:32
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Can you get the quote of the FDA guy saying that? I'd like to see that..

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Tue, 2005-08-02 11:29
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Bush Circumvents Senate, Appoints Bolton

http://infertility.about.com/od/controversyconundrums/a/Hager.htm wrote:
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.

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Tue, 2005-08-02 11:42
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Bush Circumvents Senate, Appoints Bolton

Kyamo wrote:
http://infertility.about.com/od/controversyconundrums/a/Hager.htm wrote:
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.

Thanks! Crazy huh?

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Thu, 2005-08-04 23:55
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Bush Circumvents Senate, Appoints Bolton

Ha yeah, some hardcore right-wingers are nuts. Reagan's Secretary of the Interior in the 1980s suggested that we need not protect the environment because the end of the earth may be near. Some years later he was convicted of selling government land to oilmen. Imagine that!

As for Bolton, who cares really, it's not like he's going to be on the Supreme Court.

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