The Feminist Majority will joined the National Organization for Women,several members of the US Congress, and other concerned groups on Wednesday in a press conference to get the word out about President Bush’s nomination of a heavily religious and anti-abortion rights doctor to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Kentucky, is a member of the Christian Medical Association (CMA) and represented the group in the recent petition to the FDA asking for an immediate ban on mifepristone (also known as RU-486 and the “abortion pill”) as well as a complete review of its approval, claiming that the drug endangered the lives of women and their “unborn/newborn offspring,” according to a CMA news release. The committee that Hager would lead was responsible for a “key recommendation” in 1996 that led to FDA approval of mifepristone.
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