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Title: As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now by W. David Hager ISBN: 0-8007-1751-1 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't Let Bush Appoint this Man!
Comment: >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's 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. 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.
>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.
>Hager's mission is religiously motivated. He has an ardent interest in
>revoking approval for mifepristone (formerly known as RU-486) as a safe
>and early form of medical abortion. Hagar recently assisted the
>Christian Medical Association in a "citizen's petition" which calls upon
>the FDA to revoke its approval of mifepristone in the name of women's
>health.
>Hager's desire to overturn mifepristone's approval on religious grounds
>rather than scientific merit would halt the development of mifepristone
>as a treatment for numerous medical conditions disproportionately
>affecting women, including breast cancer, uterine cancer, uterine
>fibroid tumors, psychotic depression, bipolar depression and Cushing's
>syndrome.
>Women rely on the FDA to ensure their access to safe and effective drugs
>for reproductive health care including products that prevent pregnancy.
>For some women, such as those with certain types of diabetes and those
>undergoing treatment for cancer, pregnancy can be a life-threatening
>condition. 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.
Rating: 1
Summary: reality check
Comment: Here're the facts: The man is a member of the FDA committee, not the chair. He was appointed in December 2002 (two years ago, folks) and he'll be out in June of this year (2004). The chair of the committee is a woman scientist from Stanford. Some of the circulating Hager rumour is exaggerated. However, at least three standing members in the FDA roster do publicly blend their christianity with their Science. I'm simply glad there are still committees of scientists involved in government. I tried three weeks ago to post this message with links to corroborate myself, but my post didn't make it up here. Since the rumour (see snopes) is up again, I thought I would try to rebut the previous reviewer anyway.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dangerous and Inappropriate
Comment: 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, and is likely to fill the other eleven positions with similar Christian Rightwingers. Congress cannot stop this. I guess we better all start praying, since the government will be making decisions about the availablity of drugs on religious grounds, rather than scientific information.
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Title: Stress and the Woman's Body by David W. Hager, Linda Carruth ISBN: 0800756657 Publisher: Revell Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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