Replying to A right to choose
This information came to me from a very politicaly active friend and I know its long but its something you all should read and take action about. thank you
Regardless of party affiliation, there are some very important issues going on right now which have not received a great deal of media attention and will affect all of our lives in very personal ways. The greatest threat american's face is not from our elected officials, but from those that they appoint. Currently Dr. David Hager is being considered for the chair of the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee at the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This is the group responsible for controlling drugs pertaining to contraceptives, abortion (like mifepristone/RU 486/'abortion pill') & HRT. Dr. Hager is exeedingly conservative, refusing to prescribe birth control to unmarried women in his practive as a gynocologist. He believes that emergency contraceptive or the morning-after pill is a form of abortion and should be outlawed. His appointment would be a threat to women's health in the US.
The other nominee i would like to call your attention to is Michael McConnel, to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. he is violently opposed to the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act which protects our freedom to walk into a clinic or doctor's office w/o being violently assaulted by anti-choice activists. He is interested in overturning Roe vs. Wade.
If either of these nominees concerns you, as they do me, then please voice your opinion. Here are websites w/ pre-written letters protesting each of them to the white house and senate. or, of course, you can write you own, call your representative, etc. only takes a few seconds, so PLEASE make your voice heard.
DR. Hager:
http://www.nfprha.org/pac/wac/index.asp?step=2&item=2234
Michael McConnell:
http://www.nfprha.org/pac/wac/index.asp?step=2&item=1857
the magazine is called 'POWDER' cool! - my stupid non-skiing friend
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