"60 Minutes" last night on Plan B

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?channel=60Sunday&CMP=KNC-2005googlecampaign

This was a very disturbing report last night on "60 Minutes" on what this country has, and is becoming. Representation has been thrown to the wind and taken over by the American Taliban.

Watch Plan B video for story.

to the issue on 60 Minutes will help move things in another direction. That program gets extremely high ratings in all pockets of the country, and will put this issue on the radar for many people who knew nothing about it until last night.

The Talibornagains lost credibility with the Terri Schiavo spectacle. They have overwhelming overplayed their cards (and to use another card metaphor) and tipped their hand with a swaggering, fist pounding pronouncement of their vision for America.

pressure (checked last week) has doubled since the Chimp entered the White House. I don't think I can stay in the USA another 3 years.

Everyone better get used to the idea. May be coming soon unless people finally start to give a crap about our country.

It seems that just women are targeted.

then stops... Whats up ?

I'm glad they showed a rape victim as an example of what happens when women can't get Plan B easily.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/mcgarvey

article | posted May 11, 2005 (May 30, 2005 issue)
Dr. Hager's Family Values
Ayelish McGarvey


Now that the Food and Drug Administration has again delayed over-the-counter sale of the morning-after pill Plan B, new lobbying efforts are underway to make the drug widely available. This report, published in May 30, provides useful background on how the personal ideology of Bush appointees is adversely affecting the health and welfare of women.


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.

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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.

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According to Davis, Hager's public moralizing on sexual matters clashed with his deplorable treatment of her during their marriage. Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent. Several sources on and off the record confirmed that she had told them it was the sexual and emotional abuse within their marriage that eventually forced her out. "I probably wouldn't have objected so much, or felt it was so abusive if he had just wanted normal sex all the time," she explained to me. "But it was the painful, invasive, totally nonconsensual nature of the sex that was so horrible."


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have known this about him and probably dropped this important info for time restraints and getting flak for being toooooooo liberal. And kudos for Leslie Stahl. She has consistently been reporting tough as nails stories.

talking about doing God's work.

They didn't seem to sympathize with pharmacists who object to prescribing Plan B and other contraceptives. Usually, a story like that will at least imply an understanding that it would be tough on someone's moral fiber to do something like that. Though, of course, moral judgements have no place in pharmacy.

I liked the comparison to condoms, too - no one brings that up much. Good point.

I would have such a screaming fit if someone refused to fill a prescription - any prescription- for any reason other than some terrible drug interaction or known allergy. I hope that someday people can separate science and religion for real, and for good.