"... or maybe he just has to much sand in his vagina!"
:)
Posted on 03/20/2006 11:43:43 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
In case you're still not sure just how destructive the Bush administration has become to this country, you need to read Michael Specter's piece in the March 13 issue of the New Yorker magazine.
It's enough to give you the willies.
Specter documents how the Bush people have stacked the Food and Drug Administration with fanatics who regularly trump science to advance their own religious beliefs. It reads like a modern-day Galileo being persecuted by the Catholic Church because he maintained Earth was round.
Although Specter cites several examples of religious beliefs thwarting scientific advances by key appointees to the FDA and other divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services (Tommy Thompson's old department), one of the most egregious has been to block a vaccine designed to thwart cervical cancer.
Two of the country's bigger pharmaceutical companies Merck and GlaxoSmithKline have developed and proven the safety of a vaccine that prevents a common sexually transmitted disease called human papillomavirus (HPV). Strains of HPV are known to cause cervical cancer in early adulthood. The vaccine needs to be administered to girls before they become sexually active, which is an average age of 17.
And therein lies the rub for the religious base of the Republican Party that George Bush and company have installed in crucial posts in the health department. That base and George W. Bush himself steadfastly adheres to the proposition that kids need to practice abstinence. In their eyes, anything from promoting the use of condoms to giving young girls vaccinations against sexually transmitted diseases only encourages promiscuity among young people.
These people refuse to believe results of the numerous scientific studies that have shown the availability of condoms, for instance, has absolutely no impact on the rate of teen sex, or that young people who pledge to abstain actually engage in sex as often as those who don't take a pledge.
Their religion maintains that premarital sex is a sin, period, which is fine except that Bush has created a situation where those overzealous religious beliefs instead of scientific fact determine national policy.
"Since George W. Bush became president, the United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on abstinence programs, and it has cut almost that much in aid to groups that support abortion and the use of condoms as a primary method of birth control," Specter pointed out.
But, who would believe they would actually block approval of a vaccine that can prevent cancer?
The role that religion is playing in important health decisions has caused several career FDA doctors and staff to quit their jobs in disgust.
It isn't just an insane war. It's the anti-environment policies, the unjust tax policies, the ceaseless trashing of civil liberties and the subjugation of solid medical science for religious zealotry that is tearing down an America that was based on fairness and truth.
Can we really survive nearly three more years of this destruction?
"Can we really survive nearly three more years of this destruction?"
Dude's ovaries are sure in a bunch.
No educated person in Galileo's day thought the earth was anything but round.
The author of this piece is a moron, but does not realize it.
We need to push our children to have sex even earlier. Give them shots, condoms, abortion pills, whatever it takes! Just teach them to have sex as often as possible. Oh yeah, and with the same sex just so they can really explore their sexuality. And the younger, the better.
Why the **** does anyone think our children's sex lives are the responsibility of the government anyway????
And therein lies the rub for the religious base of the Republican Party that George Bush and company have installed in crucial posts in the health department. That base and George W. Bush himself steadfastly adheres to the proposition that kids need to practice abstinence.
You think this is parody, but it sounds EXACTLY like our office feminist who (as she never tires of telling anyone who will listen) wants her daughter to have had several abortions by the time the girl is out of junior high school.
Been doing a little, and I do mean, little bit of research:
There is no "cure" for HPV infection, although in most women the infection goes away on its own.
"Approximately 10 of the 30 identified genital HPV types can lead, in rare cases, to development of cervical cancer."
The surest way to eliminate risk for genital HPV infection is to refrain from any genital contact with another individual.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm#common
The autor is an alarmist, Bush-hating liar.
And what does the girl's daddy think of that?
"The role that religion is playing in important health decisions has caused several career FDA doctors and staff to quit their jobs in disgust".....
Yes..Yes...we are multiplying like rabbits, we are taking control and we are coming to get you leftist LIBERALS.....ahhhhhhhh haaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa ahhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
"Since George W. Bush became president, the United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on abstinence programs, and it has cut almost that much in aid to groups that support abortion and the use of condoms as a primary method of birth control," Specter pointed out."
With rampant STD's, AIDS, illegitimate pregnancies and immoral sewage spilling from the internet it's not a 'good idea' to teach abstinence? Oh yeh..that would cut the profits of Planned Parenthood Abortion Mills and Condom makers......follow the sleaze $$ to the root of stink.
Ya think??
Women's health chief quits over pill flap
FDA approval for over-the-counter sale of 'morning-after' pill too slow, she says
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Washington -- The head of the Food and Drug Administration's women's health office resigned Wednesday in a widening protest over delays in deciding whether the "morning-after" contraceptive can be sold without a prescription.
Susan F. Wood, a biologist and veteran of 15 years in professional positions on Capitol Hill and in two administrations, took the unusual step of publicly announcing her resignation in an e-mail to friends and colleagues that was distributed to the media by a policy group that favors reproductive choice.
"I can no longer serve . . . when scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated and recommended for approval by the professional staff here, has been overruled," wrote Wood, 46, who has been at the agency nearly five years and held the title of assistant commissioner.
FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford had announced Friday that even though the drug is safe, proposed restrictions on teenage girls' access to it have raised legal issues that must be examined in a process that could take months, or longer. The FDA had earlier promised a decision by today.
Wood's resignation brought calls from prominent Democratic lawmakers for hearings into the agency's handling of the issue. Already under criticism for drug safety lapses, the FDA is now being drawn into a polarizing debate about reproductive choice and sexual mores.
Proponents of the drug, marketed as Plan B, say making it more easily available would prevent unwanted pregnancies and reduce the number of abortions. Opponents, including social conservatives in the Bush administration's political base, say it would encourage promiscuity, and they liken it to an abortion drug -- a position counter to the FDA's.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/01/MNGVMEGBSN1.DTL
Susan F. Wood QUIT to go on the "Culture of Death" Speaking Tour for the Center for American Progress! She now gets paid to Bush-bash at "Culture of Death" gatherings.
"Please join Dr. Wood and our other esteemed panelists to discuss the numerous issues surrounding the Plan B application, the implications of the agency’s inaction, and thoughts on how to obtain more accountability and reliability from the executive branch."
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=593305&ct=1502459
There were 4600 cervical cancer deaths in 2000.
I will point out that a virginal young woman could be infected by her husband, who might himself have been unchaste only once.
I can just see this vaccine being required by the schools.
Mrs VS
"There were 4600 cervical cancer deaths in 2000."
And what percentage of those was caused by HPV?
Just about all of them. Women who are not "sexually active" and have had several negative Pap tests in a row can stop having Pap tests, or have them infrequently.
Mrs VS
Unborn children are indirectly another casualty of HPV. If the cervix has an extensive area of abnormal cells, a cone biopsy is often done, which can lead to a weak cervix and pregnancy loss.
Mrs VS
"... or maybe he just has to much sand in his vagina!"
:)
Interesting, thanks.
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