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11/29 Dr. David Hager, Dubya appointee to an FDA panel, had voted earlier
this year (in the minority, 23-4) to withhold the Plan B morning-after
pill, and is also an anal rapist:
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050530&s=mcgarvey
Linda Davis, former wife after 32 years of marriage, "alleges that
between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her
without her consent. ... Sometimes Hager would blithely shift from
vaginal to anal sex ... 'He would say, "Oh, I didn't mean to have anal
sex with you; I can't feel the difference."'"
\_ Rapists are typically in charge in theocracies. Certain
ideologies appeal to certain types of people.
\_ I envy him having a wife with such a tight vagina!
\_ That's the more pleasant possibility...
\_ At least until he asks her to put on the Ricky Martin mask.
\_ isn't it sad this is all public knowledge... but david hager
is still around? What do you gotta do in this administration
to get fired, anally sodomize your wife?
\_ Telling the truth is usually the fastest way.
\_ Hiring a prostitute.
"... she even let Hager pay her for sex that she wouldn't have
otherwise engaged in--for example, $2,000 for oral sex"
\_ More: "For the next seven years Hager sodomized Davis without her
consent [after being put on sleeping pills to treat her narcolepsy,
so she could have a regular sleeping schedule] while she slept
roughly once a month ... Sometimes she fought Hager off and he would
quit for a while, only to circle back later that same night"
\_ Ironic title: "W. David Hager gets probed"
http://www.getreligion.org/?m=20050512
\_ I agree that we should accept any allegations from a divorced
spouse.
\_ I side with all the good Christian folk who listened to Dr.
Hager, who said his wife was mentally unstable and had moved in
with another man!
\_ I'm just not impressed by the allegations of an ex-wife who put up
with this for so many years. If it was really happening and she
was really upset with him about it, she wouldn't have waited
between 7 and 32 years (the length of their marriage) to do divorce
him. It seems odd to me that his alleged behavior was only in the
last 7 years as she claims and not all 32 years as if he only just
suddenly got into anal piracy. My guess is they'd been doing anal
since they first got married but she needed a divorce charge so she
could only claim the last 7 years during which she was on sleeping
pills. Since she didn't press criminal charges, I don't see how
this is any different than a former POTUS fucking his intern and
claiming a) privacy and b) that his private life has no effect on
his public performance. Overall: yawn.
\_ Those excuses worked for the Speaker of the House. Go Newt!!
\_ His wife claimed he anally raped her for 7 years?
\_ Did you read the story?
\_ umm, right. and how many times did you hear the word rape
associated with Clinton and Lewinski? Also, the author of the
piece did confirm the wife's story with corroborating witnesses
she told during those 7 years. Does that mean she's been
planning divorice for the past 7 years?
\_ I'm not buying the rape story. Rape is a criminal offense.
If she didn't file charges then this is just bullshit and
an ex-wife's political revenge. He wanted anal, she didn't,
she did it anyway, bitched to her friends about it, it's a
private matter.
\_ Your troll powers are weak, old man. |
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| www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050530&s=mcgarvey Now that the Food and Drug Administration has again delayed over-the-coun ter sale of the morning-after pill Plan B, new lobbying efforts are unde rway to make the drug widely available. This report, published in May 30 , provides useful background on how the personal ideology of Bush appoin tees is adversely affecting the health and welfare of women. W David Hager, a prominent obstetrician-gynecologi st and Bush Administration appointee to the Advisory Committee for Repro ductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), took to the pulpit as the featured speaker at a morning service. He stood in the campus chapel at Asbury College, a small evangelical Christian school n estled among picturesque horse farms in the small town of Wilmore in Ken tucky's bluegrass region. his elderly father is a past president of the college, and Hager himself currently sits on his alma mater's board of trustees. Even the school's administrative bu ilding, Hager Hall, bears the family name. That day, a mostly friendly audience of 1,500 students and faculty packed into the seats in front of him. With the autumn sunlight streaming thro ugh the stained-glass windows, Hager opened his Bible to the Old Testame nt Book of Ezekiel and looked out into the audience. "Not only for others, but regarding ethical and moral i ssues in our country." For Hager, those moral and ethical issues all appear to revolve around se x: In both his medical practice and his advisory role at the FDA, his ar dent evangelical piety anchors his staunch opposition to emergency contr aception, abortion and premarital sex. Through his six books--which incl ude such titles as Stress and the Woman's Body and As Jesus Cared for Wo men, self-help tomes that interweave syrupy Christian spirituality with paternalistic advice on women's health and relationships--he has establi shed himself as a leading conservative Christian voice on women's health and sexuality. And because of his warm relationship with the Bush Administration, Hager has had the opportunity to see his ideas influence federal policy. In De cember 2003 the FDA advisory committee of which he is a member was asked to consider whether emergency contraception, known as Plan B, should be made available over the counter. Over Hager's dissent, the committee vo ted overwhelmingly to approve the change. But the FDA rejected its recom mendation, a highly unusual and controversial decision in which Hager, T he Nation has learned, played a key role. Hager's reappointment to the c ommittee, which does not require Congressional approval, is expected thi s June, but Bush's nomination of Dr. Lester Crawford as FDA director has been bogged down in controversy over the issue of emergency contracepti on. Crawford was acting director throughout the Plan B debacle, and Sena te Democrats, led by Hillary Clinton and Patty Murray, are holding up hi s nomination until the agency revisits its decision about going over the counter with the pill. When Hager's nomination to the FDA was announced in the fall of 2002, his conservative Christian beliefs drew sharp criticism from Democrats and prochoice groups. David Limbaugh, the lesser light in the Limbaugh famil y and author of Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging Political War Again st Christianity, said the left had subjected Hager to an "anti-Christian litmus test." Hager's valor in the face of this "religious profiling" e arned him the praise and lasting support of evangelical Christians, incl uding such luminaries as Charles Colson, Dr. Back at Asbury, Hager cast himself as a victim of religious persecution i n his sermon. there is a war going on in this country," he sa id gravely. It's a war bein g waged against Christians, particularly evangelical Christians. By making myself available, God has used me to stand in the b reach.... Up on the dais, several men seated behind Hager nodded solemnly in agreem ent. But out in the audience, Linda Carruth Davis--co-author with Hager of Stress and the Woman's Body, and, more saliently, his former wife of thirty-two years--was enraged. "It was the most disgusting thing I've ev er heard," she recalled months later, through clenched teeth. According to Davis, Hager's public moralizing on sexual matters clashed w ith his deplorable treatment of her during their marriage. Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent. Several sources on and off the record confirme d that she had told them it was the sexual and emotional abuse within th eir marriage that eventually forced her out. Not once during the uproar over Hager's FDA appointment did any reporter solicit the opinion of the woman now known as Linda Davis--she remarried in November 2002 to James Davis, a Methodist minister, and relocated to southern Georgia--on her husband's record, even though she contributed to much of his self-help work in the Christian arena (she remains a reli gious and political conservative). She intermittently thought of telling her story but refrained, she says, out of respect for her adult childre n It was Hager's sermon at Asbury last October that finally changed her mind. Davis was there to hear her middle son give a vocal performance; she was prepared to hear her ex-husband inveigh against secular liberals , but she was shocked to hear him speak about their divorce when he took to the pulpit. "In early 2002," Hager told the churchgoers that day, "my world fell apar t... After thirty-two years of marriage, I was suddenly alone in a new home that we had built as our dream home. Time spent 'doing God's will' had kept me from spending the time I needed to nourish my marriage." Hag er noted with pride that in his darkest hour, Focus on the Family estima ted that 50 million people worldwide were praying for him. "He had the gall to stand under t he banner of holiness of the Lord and lie, by the sin of omission," she told me. David Hager is not the fringe character and fundamentalist faith healer t hat some of his critics have made him out to be. In Kentucky Hager has long been recognized as a lead ing Ob-Gyn at Lexington's Central Baptist Hospital and a faculty member at the University of Kentucky's medical school. And in the 1990s several magazines, including Modern Healthcare and Good Housekeeping, counted h im among the best doctors for women in the nation. Yet while Hager doesn't advocate the substitution of conservative Christi anity for medicine, his religious ideology underlies an all-encompassing paternalism in his approach to his women patients. "Even though I was t rained as a medical specialist," Hager explained in the preface to As Je sus Cared for Women, "it wasn't until I began to see how Jesus treated w omen that I understood how I, as a doctor, should treat them." To unders core this revelation, Hager recounted case after case in which he acted as confidant, spiritual adviser and even father figure to his grateful p atients. As laid out in his writings, Hager's worldview is not informed by a sense of inherent equality between men and women. Instead, men are expected to act as benevolent authority figures for the women in their l ives. ") But to model gender relations on the one Jesus had with his followers is to leave women dangerously exposed in the event t hat the men in their lives don't meet the high standard set by God Himse lf--trapped in a permanent state of dependence hoping to be treated well . In tandem with his medical career, Hager has been an aggressive advocate for the political agenda of the Christian right. A member of Focus on th e Family's Physician Resource Council and the Christian Medical and Dent al Society, Hager assisted the Concerned Women for America in submitting a "Citizen's Petition" to the FDA in August 2002 to halt distribution a nd marketing of the abortion pill, RU-486. It was this record of conserv ative activism that ignited a firestorm when the Bush Administration fir st floated his name for chairman of the FDA's advisory committee in the fall of 2002. In the end, the FDA found a way to dodge the controversy: It issued a stealth announcement of Hager's appointmen... |
| www.getreligion.org/?m=20050512 Main | Thursday, May 12, 2005 W David Hager gets probed As a prolifer and a Bush appointee to an FDA advisory committee, W David Hager has seen his share of fierce opposition. Its likely to grow fier cer still amid disturbing allegations made by his former wife. cover story for the May 30 issue of The Nation begins to circulate. Hager stands accused of, among other things, forced sodomy and paying his wife for sex. Linda Carruth Davis, Hagers ex-wife and his coauthor on Stress and the W omans Body, tells McGarvey she decided to go public with these allegati ons after hearing Hager discuss their divorce during a chapel service at Asbury College. McGarvey researched the story diligently, finding sever al people who recall Davis as making such allegations while she was stil l married to Hager. evangelicals and politics before in her job with The American Prospect, does not indulge in glib dismissals based on Hagers Christian faith: David Hager is not the fringe character and fundamentalist faith healer that some of his critics have made him out to be. In Kentucky Hager has long been recognized as a l eading Ob-Gyn at Lexingtons Central Baptist Hospital and a faculty mem ber at the University of Kentuckys medical school. And in the 1990s se veral magazines, including Modern Healthcare and Good Housekeeping, cou nted him among the best doctors for women in the nation. At one point McGarvey interrupts her brisk narrative with an awkward assu rance that this is not Zippergate all over again: (Lest inappropriate analogies be drawn between the Hager accusations and the politics of personal destruction that nearly brought down the pres idency of Bill Clinton, it ought to be remembered that President Clinto ns sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky was never alleged to be cr iminal and did not affect his ability to fulfill his obligations to the nation. This, of course, did not stop the religious right from calling for his head. public behavior has emerged as perhaps the central moral issue raised by Bill Clintons improper rel ationship, wrote evangelist and Hager ally Franklin Graham at the tim e But the God of the Bible says that what one does in private does ma tter. takes up only those aspects of McGarveys report that concern a memo by Hager that may have swayed an FDA ruling against Plan B, a birth-control pill that Hagee opposed fo r its possible effects on girls younger than 16. I lost the clip in one of my three computers, but ran into it again. Even though its not breaking news, I wanted to give GetReligion readers a h eads-up on it, since this story is not going away, by which I mean the s tory of the Democrats and the Republicans actually finding some kind of common ground on legislation about abortion. This is one of those cases where it takes real courage to float any kind of compromise. Three years ago, Democr ats for Life was banned from the Democratic National Committee homepage. Now, the 95-10 plan was announced in a press event at DNC headquarters. That is either a change or merely a sign that the leadership franticall y wants to present the appearance of some change. Again, here is the question that the press needs to be watching, because this is a huge story: Will the Democrats merely change their language ab out social issues, or will they dare to actually attempt legislation tha t finds common ground? Meanwhile, the Republicans keep showing off their pro-abortion-rights stars with an eye on 2008, perhaps. Will the GOP actually try to pass compromise legislation that attempts to prevent abo rtions, or simply continue to use the issue as a red flag to wave at rel igious conservatives? But for now, the action is on the Democratic side of the aisle. party platform actually says that to oppose abortion is the same th ing as being a Republican. Page notes: In a meeting with liberal organizers after losing the presidential elect ion in 2004, John Kerry infuriated some party stalwarts when he said th e approach to abortion needed to change. He said Democrats should do mo re to welcome candidates and voters who say theyre pro-life and to mak e it clear that being pro-choice didnt mean being pro-abortion. A survey in February by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg concluded tha t the abortion issue was a significant factor in Kerrys loss of white Catholic voters, a key group that sometimes votes for Republicans, some times for Democrats. President Clinton carried white Catholics by 7 per centage points in 1996; From the 2004 Democratic platform: We will defend the dignity of all Am ericans against those who would undermine it. Because we believe in the privacy and equality of women, we stand proudly for a womans right to choose, consistent with Roe v Wade, and regardless of her ability to pay. We stand firmly against Republican efforts to undermine that right . Please let us know if you see covera ge of these issues worth noting. article in The Christian Science Monitor on the role parachurch organizations are playing in putting Rwanda back together by arranging small (micro) loans to needy locals. receives loans fro m religiously oriented lending programs. The 1994 genocide, which took the lives of up to 800,000 Rwandans, kept many international lenders fr om working in Rwanda. Even after the genocide, political uncertainty an d violence in neighboring Congo and Burundi have continually threatened the sustainability of business ventures. Into this void has stepped the Christian micro-enterprise development (C MED) industry. World Relief, for example, a Christian organization base d in the US, specializes in small-business lending in post-conflict reg ions. World Relief has helped start microfinance programs in Mozambique , Sierra Leone, Kosovo, and Cambodia, among other places. Its Rwandan a ffiliate opened in 1996 and has grown into the largest microfinance ins titution in the country. |