All your vaginas

are belong to us!

Hmmm.

I wonder what the United States of Robertson would look like?

Where Decency Police can stop your car and beat you for not having a little, plastic jesus prominently displayed on your dashboard?

I wonder what it would feel like to live in a country where we arise and all sing "Dobson Bless America" each morning before the men go off to work on the reclamation crews that convert the toxic wastelands where cities used to be into All White, All Christian golf courses...the boys go off to the madrasses to learn about Jesus and the Dinosaurs...while the women and girls sit quietly at home in their Wal-Mart Happy Face-patterned bhurkas.

Where the whole government is infected with Wahabi Christians who are ideologically indistinguishable from Wahabi Muslims except in the way they barber their chins.

I bet the early days of such a Dark Age would look a lot like this...

Audit Faults FDA on Morning-After Pill

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical WriterTue Nov 15, 3:14 AM ET

Lawmakers are again accusing the Food and Drug Administration of putting politics over science in the long-running saga over whether the morning-after pill should sell without a prescription.

A congressional audit released Monday cited "unusual" steps in the FDA's initial rejection of over-the-counter emergency contraception, including conflicting accounts of whether top officials made the decision even before scientists finished reviewing the evidence.

The FDA is reconsidering the decision on the pill, sold under the brand Plan B. While the report by the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, doesn't say that FDA made the wrong decision, it does raise the most serious questions to date about agency credibility — and increases pressure to settle the issue.

"Regardless of how you feel about whether Plan B should be available in the community, the fact is the FDA decision should be based on science, not cultural controversy," said Sen. Barbara Mikulski (news, bio, voting record), D-Md.

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In December 2003, FDA's scientific advisers overwhelmingly backed over-the-counter sales of the Plan B brand for all ages. They cited assessments that easier access could halve the nation's 3 million annual unintended pregnancies.

Conservatives who consider the pill tantamount to abortion intensely lobbied the Bush administration to reject nonprescription sales, saying it would increase teen sex.

In May 2004, FDA leaders rejected the nonprescription switch, saying there was no data proving anyone under 16 could safely use the pills without a doctor's guidance.

Maker Barr Laboratories reapplied, seeking to sell Plan B with age limits similar to those required for cigarettes: Females 16 or older could buy it without a prescription but younger teens would continue to need a doctor's note. In August, FDA leaders postponed a decision indefinitely, saying it wasn't clear how to enforce an age limit.

The result was unprecedented public discord from the normally secretive agency: Top-ranking FDA officials have acknowledged they overruled their own scientists' decision that nonprescription sales would be safe, and the women's health chief resigned in protest.

Asked to investigate FDA's initial rejection, the GAO found:

_Minutes of a Jan. 15, 2004, meeting show that Dr. Steven Galson, then acting drug chief, told employees that rejection was "recommended" because of the young-teen question even though they hadn't finished reviewing the science. Other FDA officials told investigators that they, too, were informed a decision had already been made.

Galson denied making a final ruling until he had reviewed his employees' evidence a few weeks prior to the May rejection, although GAO said he did acknowledge that he was "90 percent sure" as early as January.

_There was unusual involvement from high-ranking officials. During a Feb. 18, 2004, meeting, reviewers told then-Commissioner Mark McClellan there was no evidence to back Galson's concerns about young teens. Minutes show McClellan questioned those conclusions.

_Three FDA directors who normally would have been responsible for signing off on the drug's fate did not do so. They weren't asked to, and Galson did instead, because they were known to disagree with the decision.

_The age rationale was novel; FDA never before required special teen evidence for birth control but could have extrapolated data from older teens showing no effect on sexual behavior.

In a letter Monday, 18 lawmakers asked FDA's boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, to intervene to ensure the agency's final decision on Plan B isn't based on ideology. They also asked Leavitt to probe whether FDA illegally destroyed documents from McClellan's tenure that might have shed more light on the decision.

Leavitt's office didn't return phone calls.
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Congratulations again, Moderates! I hope all of you that voted this Christopath junta into power are very happy.

And Mrs. Moderate Republican, remember that when that man of yours get his Wahabi Wang anywhere near you, he thinks of you as his property. His chattle. A Petri dish for breeding his whelplings...so why are you OK with that?

And little Moderate Republican Jimmy and Susie, remember that Daddy wants you raised up full of fear and ignorance and unable to compete in the 21st century...because Jesus wants you that way.

Well, he wants you reared that way, Jimmy. Unfortunately Susie, Daddy doesn't think of you as fully human at all, but I'm sure he'll arrange for a nice "marriage" for you to a kindly owner who will never beat you on a whim, but only beat you when you disobey and forget your place.

After all, if this is not the future Hubby and Daddy dreams of, why in the fuck does he keep voting for it?