More disgusting payback from bushco

Have you heard this story? bushco is cutting funds so drastically to the Office of Womens' Health that it will essentially be forced to shut down. Why? Evidently because they pushed for Plan B.


By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 27, 2007; Page A13

When is $4 million really $2.8 million?

One answer is "When you're a woman," as the Labor Department has repeatedly found that women earn about 75 cents for every dollar that men earn for the same work.

FDA Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach will discuss the agency's 2008 budget before a Senate panel today. (By Kenneth Lambert -- Associated Press)

But this week's answer is "When you are the Office of Women's Health" within the Food and Drug Administration. That office, which was at the center of a politically damaging storm over the emergency contraceptive "Plan B," just had more than one-quarter of this year's $4 million operating budget quietly removed, insiders say.

The office funds research on male-female biological differences to ensure that women receive the most appropriate drug doses and treatments. It also produces heavily requested health information about menopause, pregnancy, birth control, osteoporosis and other topics.

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