This Date in Bush History 12/24: Bush Appointee Fights Satan at the FDA!

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On This Date, 12/24: Fighting Satan's Plans at the FDA

"tho' Ignorance may in some be the Mother of Devotion, yet true learning and exalted piety are by no means inconsistent. "Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1749

2002: On this Christmas Eve W. David Hager is one of eleven physicians appointed to the FDA's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health. Dr. Hager, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, would seem well qualified but others are not so sure. Many are concerned that his conservative Christian views would influence his ability to give objective opinions on reproductive health and related drug issues. Dr. Hager wrote with "his wife Linda, 'Stress and the Woman's Body', which puts 'an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life' and recommends specific Scripture readings and prayers for such ailments as headaches and premenstrual syndrome" (Time Magazine).

Dr. Hager is thought to have played a key role in the FDA's unusual decision to overrule its own committee's December 2003 recommendation that emergency contraception ('Plan B') be made available to the public over the counter (just like it is in Britain and Canada; the FDA committee called it "safer than aspirin"). At the Asbury College chapel in Wilmore, Kentucky Hager commented on the FDA's decision refusing to allow Plan B to be made available without a prescription: "I was asked to write a minority opinion that was sent to the commissioner of the FDA. For only the second time in five decades, the FDA did not abide by its advisory committee opinion, and the measure was rejected ... I argued from a scientific perspective, and God took that information, and he used it through this minority report to influence the decision. Once again, what Satan meant for evil, God turned into good."

Excerpted from the 2008 Bush Calendar: http://www.PoorGeorgesAlmanac.com/onThisDate.htm