Code Duello, Election 2004 Edition
It started with Zell Miller, continued with Bill Maher, and now has reached the common angry-Democrat-in-the-street. From craigslist.org: Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight.
The net makes it so much simpler to arrange these things than it was in the old days, don’t you think?
Thanks to Lucy for the link.
November 9th, 2004 at 10:53 am
President Bush has announced his plan to select Dr. W.
David Hager to head up the Food and Drug
Administration’s (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs
Advisory Committee. The committee has not met for more
than two years, during which time its charter lapsed.
As a result, the Bush Administration is tasked with
filling all eleven positions with new members. This
position does not require Congressional approval.
The FDA’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee
makes crucial decisions on matters relating to drugs
used in the practice of obstetrics, gynecology and
related specialties, including hormone therapy,
contraception, treatment for infertility, and
medical alternatives to surgical procedures for
sterilization and pregnancy termination.
Dr. Hager is the author of “As Jesus Cared for
Women: Restoring Women Then and Now.” The book blends
biblical accounts of Christ healing Women with case
studies from Hager’s practice. His views of
reproductive health care are far outside the
mainstream for reproductive technology. Dr. Hager is a
practicing OB/GYN who describes himself as “pro-life”
and refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried
women.
In the book Dr. Hager wrote with his wife, entitled
“Stress and the Woman’s Body,” he suggests that women
who suffer from premenstrual syndrome
should seek help from reading the bible and praying.
As an editor and contributing author of “The
Reproduction Revolution: A Christian Appraisal of
Sexuality Reproductive Technologies and the Family,”
Dr. Hager appears to have endorsed the medically
inaccurate assertion that the common birth control
pill is an abortifacient.
We are concerned that Dr. Hager’s strong religious
beliefs may color his assessment of technologies that
are necessary to protect women’s lives or to preserve
and promote women’s health. Hager’s track record
of using religious beliefs to guide his medical
decision-making makes him a dangerous and
inappropriate candidate to serve as chair of this
committee. Critical drug public policy and research
must not be influenced by antiabortion politics.
Members of this important panel should be appointed on
the basis of science and medicine, rather than
politics and religion. American women deserve no less.
There is something you can do. Below is a statement to
be sent to the White House, opposing the placement of
Hager.
November 9th, 2004 at 5:08 pm
huh. craigslist took the post down.
November 9th, 2004 at 5:14 pm
Are you sure? I’m still seeing it.
November 9th, 2004 at 5:16 pm
Oh, hey, you’re right. I had it cached. And stupidly failed to snag it before updating my copy.
Sigh.
November 9th, 2004 at 8:57 pm
Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight – m4m
Reply to: anon-47785163@craigslist.org
Date: Wed Nov 03 19:11:50 2004
I would like to fight a Bush supporter to vent my anger. If you are one, have a fiery streek, please contact me so we can meet and physically fight. I would like to beat the shit out of you.
December 3rd, 2004 at 11:55 am
I’m not volunteering. Mental fights are more my style.
Can you say “KKK”?
December 3rd, 2004 at 11:55 am
Or perhaps “Rodney King”?