FDA's Morning-After Pill Decision Probed

More fraud and deceit in the Bush administration??!!  Oh horrors -- say it isn't so.

Sorry -- no can do.  It's so.

Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer, reports:

Top federal health officials may have rejected easier access to the morning-after pill before reviewing all the scientific evidence, according to an independent audit Monday that renewed charges that politics trumped science.

Politics trumped science??  In THIS administration??!!

Congressional auditors reported that the Food and Drug Administration's May 2004 decision on emergency contraception deviated from 10 years of agency practice in evaluating over-the-counter sales of prescription drugs -- and was unusual in several respects.

But there's more:  

"We are deeply opposed to this subversion of science," Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., and 17 other lawmakers wrote Health and Human Services Secretary     Mike Leavitt on Monday. "It appears that the decision ... was preordained from the outset.
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Leavitt's office didn't return phone calls seeking comment."

Didn't return phone calls?  Well, obviously, the lines must have been down.  Why would he dodge reporters on this?

God, I love Henry Waxman!

Here's a link to the full article.

Stay strong!