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The Bush administration has been infiltrated on every level with ideologues who are hostile to science. So, it is no surprise that the morning after pill, known as Plan B, never stood a chance of becoming an over the counter medication, even though the FDA's own scientists said it was safe.
Yesterday, the truth became known when the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, concluded in a report that the Food and Drug Administration's May 2004 rejection of the emergency contraceptive application was unusual in several respects.
The officials' decision to ignore the recommendation of an independent advisory committee as well as the agency's own scientific review staff was unprecedented, the report found. And a top official's "novel" rationale for rejecting the application contradicted past agency practices, it concluded.
Of course, the most serious charge was that upper management had FDA scientists go through the motions of testing and reviewing the product, when its rejection was predetermined by upper management.
The report suggested that it quickly became apparent that the agency was not going to follow its usual path when it came to the pill. "For example," it said, "F.D.A. review staff told us that they were told early in the review process that the decision would be made by high-level management."
Even though the evidence is overwhelming, FDA officials deny that report was accurate. The ease at which right wingers lie can never be underestimated. What the FDA did was sleazy and a waste of taxpayers money at the expense of women's health.
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The FDA's job and concern is to review the efficacy and safety of a drug. Not play gender politics and restrict drugs because of their 'moral views' regarding it.
Trust that despite the abuse of Viagra and deaths attributed to it, no one is eager to pull it from the market with the speed they did the diet drugs Phen-Phen combo, or ephedra.
Hormonal pharmacologicals usually have other uses besides anti conception or uterine cleansing properties. Any drugs that reduce the need for invasive surgical D & C should be offered and the reasons for their use between the patient and their health practitioner. Not the between patient, her government, a religious group she doesn't belong to, nor politicians not acquainted with her unique and personal need for the option.
Viagra isn't a life or death issue. Witholding every family planning option for women exclusively CERTAINLY is.
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