DID WHITE HOUSE SECRETLY ASK FOR ‘MINORITY REPORT’?
In his sermon, Hager referred to being “asked” to write a minority report after the panel overwhelmingly approved over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill. The comments in his report formed the basis of FDA’s decision to override that medical and scientific recommendation. FDA officials say that the agency made no such request, raising the question of who sought out Hager’s intervention. “The question that must be answered is which Bush Administration official intervened in the process to ask Dr. Hager to produce this report. Was Hager taking his orders from the same White House that recruited him to serve on the panel in the first place?” Keenan said. NARAL Pro-Choice America is a national leader in this effort and first urged the FDA to give women better access to the morning-after pill almost five years ago. NARAL Pro-Choice America directed a recent campaign that generated thousands of messages from all 50 states to the FDA, asking the agency to listen to the recommendatio
