Former FDA Commissioner Crawford Exposed

Two top FDA officials last month testified that former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford excluded them from the approval process regarding Barr Laboratories' application for nonprescription sales of its emergency contraceptive Plan B, according to depositions from a lawsuit released this week by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Long Island Newsday reports.

The two officials, Dr. Janet B. Woodcock and Dr. Steven Galson, said Crawford effectively cut them out of a process they normally participate in and handled the matter by himself.

Lester M. Crawford, then acting commissioner of the FDA, intervened in early 2005 as the agency's staff was preparing to authorize over-the-counter sales to women 17 years and older.

A nonpartisan congressional investigation reported in November the "unusual" involvement of the commissioner's office, but the nature of his role in the decision was not clear until yesterday.

As part of the lawsuit, Woodcock, an FDA deputy commissioner, testified that she had asked Crawford why she wasn't involved in the Plan B approval process. "He said he was, you know, going to take this decision by himself," she said

Galson, who heads the FDA's drug evaluation division, said he "saw a clear path to approve" Plan B, but Crawford expressed concern and said "he was going to make the decision on what to do with the application."

Galson said he recommended approval, and there was no scientific basis for Crawford's decision. Galson told Woodcock that Crawford might have been acting under pressure from Congress, the Bush administration or both, Woodcock testified.

Golly gee, really? Who would imagine that oustide influence from King George, or the Reich Congress would prevent women from controlling their own bodies, thus allowing them true autonomy?

It's puppets like Lester the Chester that aid in the control and oppression of women by denying them the right to own their own decisions.

How much did they pay you, you bag-o-douche?

What job were you gauranteed?

Women know what is best for them; not The Decider, not The Christian Mob Congress, and certainly not you Mr. bag-o-douche Crawford.

Can we please get back to the day when the FDA did it's job and regulated the safety or drugs, based on science and reason, and not moral hysteria.

Since when did the FDA become the spiritual leader of this country?

And let me ask this: why isn't there any hype about Viagra? Allowing men to have boners for 10 hours will probably make them want to have sex...why aren't they splitting at the seams about THOSE implications? Why isn't The Reich concerned about possible promiscuity, or sex outside the "marriage boundary", huh?

I would also like to add that although it appears Dr. Woodcock to be a hero in this case, she in fact is part of the moral hijacking of Plan B. She is believed to have written a March 23, 2004, staff memo suggesting she was concerned Plan B might lead to teenage promiscuity.

Again, is she a medical doctor or a zealot leader?

This is a symptom of a larger disease of the The Reich infiltrating our political and scientific communities and erasing the necessary lines between Church and State.

Too many of our political leaders have decided they are our religious leaders (King George) and too many of our religious leaders have decided they are our political leaders (Jerry Fallwell).