{"id":1856,"date":"2005-09-23T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T00:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/23\/lester-crawford-resigns-as-commissioner-of-the-fda\/"},"modified":"2005-09-23T17:10:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T00:10:22","slug":"lester-crawford-resigns-as-commissioner-of-the-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Huzzah!) Well there’s some good news. Bush’s ‘golden boy’ of the FDA has resigned from his post<\/strong><\/a>. Though I’m sure she’s pleased in seeing this, Interim President of Planned Parenthood, Karen Pearl, calls for science to return to the FDA’s decision-making,<\/strong><\/a> and for politics and ideology–namely anti-reproductive-rights politics and ideology–to be abandoned. No doubt that politics and ideology has certainly impeded the FDA’s ability to approve Plan B<\/em> and deal with women’s health in a responsible manner. Potentially dangerous breast-implants are okay, but not emergency contraception? Anyway…<\/p>\n

“Women’s health suffered under Dr. Crawford’s tenure. The FDA has ignored its public health responsibilities, repeatedly refusing to issue a decision on the application to make Plan B emergency contraception (EC) available over the counter. During more than two years that the application has been pending, greater access to EC could have prevented 3.4 million unintended pregnancies and 1.6 million abortions*.<\/p>\n

“The FDA has become a politicized agency and has ignored its mandate to safeguard the public health. In the process it has lost the credibility and respect it has traditionally enjoyed. The resignation of Dr. Susan Wood from the FDA’s Office of Women’s Health in protest over the delay in issuing a decision on EC was further proof of the politics that had trumped science under Dr. Crawford’s tenure. Causing further confusion and illustrating its internal disarray, only last week, in quick succession, the FDA named two acting directors to replace Dr. Wood.<\/p>\n

“The FDA has led an ideologically motivated effort to keep a safe and effective drug out of women’s hands. We are hopeful that this resignation signals a new day for the FDA, one in which the FDA will resume its public health responsibilities and make decisions focused on science, not politics.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I just can’t wait to see Crawford’s replacement, not that I’m expecting much. Now for some bad news which you saw coming a hundred miles away. The Senate Judiciary Committee has given Roberts the ‘okay’ by a 13-5 split.<\/strong><\/a> And I have to agree with my fellow pro-choice bloggers<\/strong><\/a> that it’s now time for NARAL to withdraw its support of Chafee<\/strong><\/a> for obvious reasons, along with any pro-choice Democrat (and alleged pro-choice Republican) who votes in favor of Roberts’ confirmation. Next we have the ‘fight-to-the-death’ battle over O’Connor’s replacement<\/a><\/strong>—whoopie<\/em>. Will the Dems disappoint us<\/strong><\/a> again with another ‘okay’ vote, though it’s to be expected when dealing with them? Oh and by the way, Ohio hates women’s reproductive rights and is purposely trying to push an anti-abortion bill through<\/strong>, <\/a>that lawmakers hope will act as a “trigger-case” to overturn Roe<\/em>. Wow, what a fun week. But don’t worry ladies, if things get any worse in the way of our reproductive rights (or the possible lack thereof, to be extremist just for a moment) just remember, we’ll always have Mexico.<\/strong><\/a> (sarcasm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Huzzah!) Well there’s some good news. Bush’s ‘golden boy’ of the FDA has resigned from his post. Though I’m sure she’s pleased in seeing this, Interim President of Planned Parenthood, Karen Pearl, calls for science to return to the FDA’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,118,102,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-anti-contraceptivesec-zaniness","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}