Thread by PhatHead.
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked its regulatory approval of the drug Avastin to treat late stage, metastatic breast cancer. Each year, the practicing oncologists chosen by 17,500 American women to save them from their life-threatening, heavily progressed cancer prescribe Avastin to treat them.
The FDA explained that it was revoking approval of the drug for that use because it decided that the drug does not provide "a sufficient benefit in slowing disease progression to outweigh the significant risk to patients." Risk? The drug is prescribed for women who are otherwise going to die from cancer unless the drug saves them at least for a time. The far greater risk to these women is from the FDA, not the drug.
As The Wall Street Journal said last Friday in response to the FDA's explanation:
Ponder that [word] "sufficient." The agency is substituting its own judgment about clinical meaningfulness for those of practicing oncologists and terminally ill cancer patients.
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Thread by me.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, December 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Planned Parenthood Federation of America plans to require all its affilate groups to offer abortions in at least one of their clinics, according to one of its affiliates.
Planned Parenthood of South Texas said Monday they were dropping their affiliation with the national abortion giant because of the decree, according to Caller.com.
The leader of the affiliate, which will change its name to Family Planning of the Coastal Bend on New Year’s Day, said there was no need to offer the procedure given the presence of other abortionists in the area.
“We have never provided abortions,” said CEO Amanda Stukenberg. “Our position is that if that is a need in your community, fine. There are far greater needs in our area than abortion. We feel that women here have options. We don’t need to duplicate services.”
The South Texas office will continue to offer emergency contraception, which can cause the death of an embryo by preventing its implantation in the uterus, in addition to other birth control drugs.
It is unclear how many of Planned Parenthood’s 89 affiliate groups in the United States do not perform medical or surgical abortions. Planned Parenthood committed 324,008 medical and surgical abortions last year, according to their 2008-2009 annual report.
Although Planned Parenthood often points out that abortion accounts for a minute percentage of its services, one former Planned Parenthood insider turned pro-life activist has revealed the group’s dependence on the “lucrative business” of abortion for propping up its $1 billion budget.
“The money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion,” said Abby Johnson, former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas.
According to Johnson, her superiors established a monthly quota of abortions to keep the money flowing, and would increase the quota to meet financial needs. “They really wanted to increase the number of abortions so that they could increase their income,” she said.
I recently heard about a senior on Medicate, who voted for Obama, who said she was not happy with Obama now. Why? The Medicare changes hit HER. Why were so many Americans taken by this man?