May 13, 2005

yay!

Dr David Hager, rapist and on an advisory panel of the FDA, will be stepping down. Via The panda which has left

A controversial evangelical doctor will leave an important Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel following allegations that he had inordinate influence over the FDA's decision on nonprescription status for emergency contraception (EC). Dr. W. David Hager, appointed to the FDAs’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee after ardent opposition from women’s reproductive health and rights groups, including the Feminist Majority, told the Lexington Herald-Leader that he “will no longer be on the advisory committee after June 30.”

This isn't the castration with a golf club he, like all rapists, deserves, but it's better than nothing.

3 comments:

MosBen said...

Castration? That's a pretty extreme solution...

Noumena said...

Yeah, well, rapists just bring out my violent side.

Quick survey question: How many people have a close friend or family member who has been raped, that you know about? Coerced into sex (it wasn't exactly rape, but it wasn't consensual, either)?

MosBen said...

I don't know that you'll get many responses to that question, friend. Still, I do know someone. Still think castration is a bit extreme of a punishment...