{"id":1545,"date":"2005-05-13T14:29:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T21:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/13\/alleged-rapist-bush-appointee-resigns-from-fda-committee\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T14:29:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T21:29:27","slug":"alleged-rapist-bush-appointee-resigns-from-fda-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Rapist Bush Appointee Resigns From FDA Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, I was skeptical about the impact of the new allegations against Dr. Hager &#8211; particularly the revalation that he was asked to send what he called a &#8220;minority report&#8221; regarding Plan B birth control to the FDA. I&#8217;m very happy to report that it seems I was wrong. Thanks to &#8220;Alas&#8221; reader Anne for pointing out this new twist on the story!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=9040\">Dr. Hager has told reporters<\/a> that he will be leaving the FDA&#8217;s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee at the end of June. So that&#8217;s good news. So long, and please be under the next bus out of town.<\/p>\n<p>But it still leaves Plan B unavailable over the counter, unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, I was skeptical about the impact of the new allegations against Dr. Hager &#8211; particularly the revalation that he was asked to send what he called a &#8220;minority report&#8221; regarding Plan B birth control to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}