Evangelical Doctor to Leave FDA Advisory Panel (David Hager)

[TacticalPeek]

May 13, 2005

Evangelical Doctor to Leave FDA Advisory Panel

A controversial evangelical doctor will leave an important Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel following allegations that he had inordinate influence over the FDA's decision on nonprescription status for emergency contraception (EC). Dr. W. David Hager, appointed to the FDAs’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee after ardent opposition from women’s reproductive health and rights groups, including the Feminist Majority, told the Lexington Herald-Leader that he “will no longer be on the advisory committee after June 30.”

An expose in The Nation published online yesterday revealed that Hager claims to have been asked by the FDA to write a minority opinion for the FDA commissioner explaining why over-the-counter status for the emergency contraceptive Plan B should be rejected. An FDA spokeswoman denied this claim, according to the Washington Post. Hager told the Herald-Leader that he could not “reveal” the name of the person who asked him for the minority report. The Nation story also featured a lengthy interview with Hager’s ex-wife, who alleges that Hager sexually abused her repeatedly during their marriage, which was corroborated with both on and off the record sources.

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http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=9040

[yorkiemommie1]

1. Good!

n/t

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Bill Maher had the best joke about him

An ob-gyn who claimed he kept anally raping his wife while she was asleep because "he missed."

Great. A vagina doctor who can't find a vagina.

Great.

[drduffy]

19. love it

your cat gave me my only laugh of the saturday moring so far. I wish you had it as part of a screen saver.

[ananda]

28. what

How can a rapist anally rape a woman while she's asleep!!!

[NNN0LHI]

30. Being a doctor with access to stuff perhaps he was sedating her first?

Just guessing.

Don

[iconoclastic cat]

31. I read that she was taking medication for narcolepsy.

[MuseRider]

43. I take meds for narcolepsy and if my husband tried

something like that while I was sleeping....POW! I can't imagine that did not wake her up.

[davidinalameda]

3. one down

how many thousands to go

[TheDebbieDee]

4. I'm glad Hager resigned......

But the damage (restricting Plan B to prescription only) is already done!

[xxqqqzme]

10. I thought it was

being reviewed again.

[Straight Shooter]

5. Their headline is too kind. "Wife-raping sadist to leave FDA ..."

I read the entire article. This man was disgusting in his treatment of his wife. Turned her into a domestic whore for his pleasure. The stronger his social power became, and the higher he rose in the ranks, the more he abused her.

Typical Repub, being absolutely corrupted by delusions of absolute power.

[ashling]

7. What is the statute of limitations on rape in Fla.

or wherever this criminal is from?

[bunny planet]

34. Republican Family Values at their very best.

[ClintonTyree]

41. What is it with these freaks?

:wtf: These people are so sexually repressed during their formative years that when they reach adulthood they turn into predatory sexually perverted animals! Jebus....these people have to loosen up a bit. This is what happens when you're raised in that super strict, sex is evil and dirty mentality. What a bunch of freaks, and THEY want the United States to be a Theocracy? Ain't 'gonna happen you freakish sky pilots! :grr:

[NAO]

6. Evangelical Doctor...is that one of those guys who hits you on the head

and says, "In the name of Jesus, BE HEALED!".

They say people are instantly healed of afflictions like cancer or get up out of wheelchairs and walk. I have been watching those shows for years...I really want to see someone "healed" of obesity by the laying on of hands.

Just like the crutches are thrown away, I want to see the large cloths fall off and a skinny person jump up and down saying "praise Jesus, I was fat but now I am thin! Hallelujah!"

[onager]

12. Ha! Like us skeptics say about Lourdes...

"All those crutches and wheelchairs. But not a single pair of glasses or toupee!"

[Mountainman]

8. Bugger off you bugger!

[xxqqqzme]

9. hallelujah

Thank U, thank U......say AMEN!!!

[quiet.american]

11. Another whacko brought to you by the Republican Party. n/t

[Kool Kitty]

13. Buh-bye Dave!

Don't let the door hit you in the ass....

[Shallah Kali]

14. Is there any site tracking this violent criminal hypocrites?

All the hypocrites should be tracked exposed but most especially ones like this twisted nutjob.

[Up2Late]

15. NPR did a story about this guy, if you want to hear him Praise Jesus...

...for helping him triumph over the evil 24-3 decision in favor of over the counter use, that he and Jesus and the WH opposed.

I haven't read all of the article yet, but I hope they mentioned how he bragged that someone at the WH asked him to contact the FDA so that he could push their agenda on this board. A charge that Scottie denied.


Here a link:

Emergency Contraception Drug a Hot Potato at FDA

Click link above to Listen to this story...

by Joanne Silberner

All Things Considered, May 13, 2005 · One of the thorniest issues for the Food and Drug Administration is whether to allow non-prescription sales of an emergency contraception pill. The issue is heating up again, with an evangelical Christian advisor to the FDA taking credit for keeping emergency contraception off the market.

[bcoylepa]

25. NPR & David Hager- censored

after listening to the segment on NPR last night - I wrote them this letter

"Are you for real? Tonight's segment on Dr Hager and his supposedly Christian values influencing the FDA's policy on Emergency Contraception was beyond belief! You mentioned that the report was based on an article in the Nation magazine. You neglected to mention that the article in the Nation was an interview with this Dr's former wife in which she accused him of forcing her sexually and abusing her. Was this not important to you or your listeners? Do you think that all that is important is to listen to his guy talk about his supposed "Christian Values"? I am so sick of the hypocrisy/ Your listeners deserve better. This guy makes reproductive health care policy for me and for my children. - if it wasn't so scary it would be funny.I hope that Senator Clinton and Murray keep digging into this. "

wonder if they will do a follow up - no one seems to want to report on the Nation's content- kudos to Ayelish McGarveyand the Nation for this brave report!

[Nothing Without Hope]

16. This is good news. It's amazing how many of the Fristians truly are

perverted in their cruelty and secret vices. Repeated rape - yeah, obviously a Fristian. It's all power games and triumphing over victims with those guys. What a crew.

[ngGale]

17. Byeeee, and don't let the door hit you in....

the butt on your way out, pervert!:toast:

[Judi Lynn]

18. He's incabable of maintaining a respectful relationship to someone close

Plays stupid games with them. He's cold, completely inaccessible, lives in his own nutso world, has no emotional depth whatsoever, no real living concern for others at close range.

Odd that he feels most comfortable "relating" to a wife when he believes she may be asleep. Twisted, undeveloped, wildly incomplete.

He tried to get strokes from his congregation by yapping about how hard his divorce was on him on the Sunday his ex-wife had arranged to be in church for some son-related event, leaving her wide open to group resentment even as she sat among them. That's a dirty, dirty trick.

Nothing admirable about this creep. He's a natural choice for a _Bush regime.



The magic man, Dr. Hager, himself.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

39. He's pretty

Put him in an "orientation" cell with forty other guys. Here's one case where the punishment can easily fit the crime.

[MaineDem]

20. Praise the Lord!!!

He never never never should have been appointed in the first place.

He was an insult to women and women's health. Now it seems he was worse than that to his wife. What a slap in the face to women everywhere to have this piece of crap on an advisory panel like this!

This has made my week.

[strangemedicine]

21. NPR played a bit of his speech to a xtian congregation

He is a flat out right wing ninny. It occurs to me that so many of these forwins (flat-out right wing ninnys) have classic symptoms of psychological projection. They feel so guilty for their many transgressions against other people for which they take NO responsibility that they project their own transgressions on others. They are moral midgets with the moral development of children.

I'm just saying ...

[maddezmom]

22. thank you god

;)

[LynneSin]

23. Ok you guys, this is just wrong - Dr. Hager was such a great guy....

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[MaineDem]

24. You scared me there for a minute, Lynne

Whewww...

BTW, Happy Birthday. :party:

[LynneSin]

33. Oh hell, you knew better than that

:eyes:

[MaineDem]

35. 'Course I did

Guess I forgot the ;)

[Ilsa]

26. He was "practicing his love" on his wife. I wonder what happens

with his patients? I hope they all insist on having a nurse present, because I bet he would move ahead with "a probing exam" whether he had one there or not.


I love that SNL skit, LynneSin.

[supernova]

27. I'm glad this guy is gone

:applause:

I feel sorry for his wife and son. I hope she got away in time to not only heal herself but also so his sone doesn't turn to have his same behaviors.

Wow. What a complete asshole. Maybe now we will get plan B OTC.

What is it with these RW men and their desire to control women? That's really at the heart of all of this abusive behavior.

[Up2Late]

38. "...their desire to control women?" I'm really stating to believe...

that it is a RW plot, because they are getting worried that the number of Poor, poorly educated, can't find a job, young men is falling too fast, so they won't have enough new recruits for the Army and their wars for Oil and wealth, in a few years :evilfrown:

[gademocrat7]

29. Can his MD license be revoked?

What a criminal.

[carpetbagger]

46. Probably not.

I've never heard of a spousal spat not resulting in a felony conviction being used to suspend a license. Even many state boards take minimal action when a patient-related sexual misconduct case short of rape takes place.

Also, many physicians like to play "I'm the voice of g'd" over their patients. The types of malice he's been acused of in his practice is common, and barring specific statutes prohibiting them, he's in the clear.

[rocktivity]

32. He didn't have enough sense to try to claim he was joking

Back to the barnyard with you, then! And another one bites the dust!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Roland99]

36. Dr. Hager's Family Values (LONG read)

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050530&c=1&s=mcgarvey

Late last October Dr. W. David Hager, a prominent obstetrician-gynecologist and Bush Administration appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), took to the pulpit as the featured speaker at a morning service. He stood in the campus chapel at Asbury College, a small evangelical Christian school nestled among picturesque horse farms in the small town of Wilmore in Kentucky's bluegrass region. Hager is an Asburian nabob; his elderly father is a past president of the college, and Hager himself currently sits on his alma mater's board of trustees. Even the school's administrative building, Hager Hall, bears the family name.

That day, a mostly friendly audience of 1,500 students and faculty packed into the seats in front of him. With the autumn sunlight streaming through the stained-glass windows, Hager opened his Bible to the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel and looked out into the audience. "I want to share with you some information about how...God has called me to stand in the gap," he declared. "Not only for others, but regarding ethical and moral issues in our country."

For Hager, those moral and ethical issues all appear to revolve around sex: In both his medical practice and his advisory role at the FDA, his ardent evangelical piety anchors his staunch opposition to emergency contraception, abortion and premarital sex. Through his six books--which include such titles as Stress and the Woman's Body and As Jesus Cared for Women, self-help tomes that interweave syrupy Christian spirituality with paternalistic advice on women's health and relationships--he has established himself as a leading conservative Christian voice on women's health and sexuality.

<...>

Up on the dais, several men seated behind Hager nodded solemnly in agreement. But out in the audience, Linda Carruth Davis--co-author with Hager of Stress and the Woman's Body, and, more saliently, his former wife of thirty-two years--was enraged. "It was the most disgusting thing I've ever heard," she recalled months later, through clenched teeth.

[DeepModem Mom]

37. kick

[Spiffarino]

40. Dr. Hager's new books (from Marc and Mark on AAR)

"You Want Plan B? I'll Show You Plan B!"
"Epesiotomy: Tightening the Marital Bond"
"Really? I Could Swear I've Seen Babies Come Out of There!"

[MADem]

42. Here's his OLD book, and the title is rather ironic, considering what we

...know NOW!!!!!



I imagine stress CAN affect the bodies of most women who are anally raped in their sleep by their gyn husband, who alternatively claims he couldn't find the proper orafice and then leaves money to atone for his misdeeds!!!

Such a cretin! Beyond redemption, IMO!

[sinkingfeeling]

44. Hurrah! Bye-bye Dave!!

[CoffeeCat]

45. This is good news, but I don't get it...

Why did this guy leave?

Yes, there were allegations against him. However, many Republicans have allegations against them--some worse than Hager's.

Look at Bolton. The allegations against him are notorious. He's not going anywhere. Same with DeLay.

Although this is good news--it sticks out as extraordinary.

Most Republicans just deny, cover up and lie about allegations against them, as they insist that anything negative said about them is preposterous.

They usually don't resign or slink away.

I wonder why Hager did.

[AnnieBW]

47. Let's Pretend...

Maybe he was pretending that his wife was actually a man that he was giving it up the a** to! :D

[Triana]

48. I hope the door hits you on the way out, you...

...mysogenist creep. Byeeeeeeee!

[Erika]

49. What a disgusting man.

The theocratic "right" could be Taliban leaders as shown by their treatment of women.

[mcscajun]

50. Good! but just a few years late.

This was the same idiot who suggests that women who suffer from premenstrual syndrome should seek help from reading the bible and praying!

How many wingnuts, wackjobs, hypocrites and downright criminals have to be exposed before SOMETHING, ANYTHING sticks to Bush? How long must we all suffer?

:banghead: