Posted on 06/17/2006 9:35:08 AM PDT by wagglebee
In a June 12 letter to the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, Monty Patterson, the father of 18-year-old Holly Patterson, who died in 2003 after taking the abortion pill RU-486, has accused a former official of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of deliberately leaving out her associations with pro-abortion advocacy groups in her testimony on RU-486.
“I question if there are ethical issues and a potential conflict of interest surrounding Susan F. Wood, Ph.D., testifying at the Subcommittee Hearing on May 17, 2006,” Patterson wrote.
Formerly Assistant Commissioner for Women’s Health at the FDA, Susan Wood resigned August 31, 2005, in response to the agency’s decision to delay a final ruling on whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, should be made available over the counter. Concerned Women for America (CWA) provided extensive information supporting the FDA’s decision, showing how Susan Wood’s position would harm women and girls.
Patterson’s letter explains Wood’s work with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP), an organization allied with several abortion-advocacy groups, which aggressively sought to bring RU-486 to the market. “Without disclosing her affiliation with RHTP, it is my opinion that Susan Wood’s testimony lacked both credibility and professionalism,” wrote Patterson. “As a professional, she did not display an ethical responsibility to society, her colleagues or herself.”
Furthermore, Patterson asserts, Wood peddles her opinions on RU-486 as those coming from a medical professional, yet her doctorate is in philosophy of biology and she lacks medical training:
In her testimony, she states, “Questions have been raised about whether mifepristone (RU-486) is involved through suppression of the immune system. This is a question to be studied, but at this point does not seem to be a compelling mechanism.” I question Susan Wood’s authority to make such statements as a nonmedical professional.
Wood’s bias could explain why evidence suggests that FDA bureaucrats ignited derogatory media and protests by abortion groups against the appointment of Dr. W. David Hager, a highly regarded obstetrician-gynecologist who President Bush nominated to head the FDA’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. He happens to be a Christian who thinks life begins at conception.
Hager received the Outstanding Physician in America Award from Modern Healthcare in 1994 and previously served as a clinical research investigator for the Centers for Disease Control and as an assistant surgeon general.
A Time magazine article described Hager as “scantily credentialed,” despite his extensive qualifications, and The New York Times’ acerbic Maureen Dowd wrote a column titled, “W.W.J.D. at the FDA.”
“Susan Wood has been heralded by abortion groups and the media, and she speaks on college campuses courtesy of George Soros’ funding,” said Wendy Wright, President of CWA. “She is a perfect poster child for their cause. Fraud and intimidation have marked the abortion cause since its beginning.”
Yep.
Pro-Life Ping.
Please not SOROS again.
Yep, this POS is everywhere.
HOW MANY people does SOROS have in his pocket?
My guess is just about everyone with a "D" after their name.
(((PING OF INTEREST)))
Thank you for the post, wagglebee.
Time for someone to take down this fraudulent federal folly.
R U 486? R U Crazy????
SOROS. What a great name for a Bond villain...
I saw this woman on c-span as one person on a panel of women upset about the FDA holding back on this . She plainly said the way to win over people is to tell them it is just like Birth Control not abortion. She recommended LYING.
I think you, like so many people, are confusing RU-486 with the morning after pill. They are entirely different drugs. Since RU-486 is used through the eighth week of an ESTABLISHED pregnancy, there is no way it's "birth control", whereas the morning after pill can suppress ovulation to prevent conception.
NO I am saying this woman was taking about how to decieve the public. She said just say it is birth control not abortion. She is lying.
What the FDA is "holding back on" is making the morning after pill available without prescription.
As well they should.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573646/posts?page=46#46
"In 1967, Monsanto entered into a joint venture with IG Farben. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a21faea3ba6.htm
UNLEASHING THE KILLER PILL [RU-486 DANGERS, LIES, AND NAZI/COMMUNIST ROOTS EXPOSED]
Excerpt
Founded in 1952 by John D. Rockefeller III, the Population Council also has long-standing ties to the Nazi eugenicist movement, which, understandably, the Council is none too anxious to advertise [see next article below]. Certainly the pro-abortion lobby is not about to draw attention to the fact that the French manufacturer of the abortion pill, Roussel-Uclaf (the "RU" in RU-486), is a subsidiary of the "reformed" Nazi chemical giant, IG Farben. Infamous for its production of the cyanide gas Zyklon-B, and for other assistance it provided to Hitler's murderous regime, IG Farben attemted to shake its abominable image through corporate restructuring and renaming after World War II. One of its major reincarnations is the Hoescht AG pharmaceutical giant, which owns Roussel-Uclaf. So it would seem that pro-life advocates are not merely engaging in heated rhetoric or seeing phantasms when they assert that there is a Nazi bent to the "science" of abortion, and particularly as it pertains to RU-486.
more:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a21faea3ba6.htm
Or a Main Street
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