Worst. Gynecologist. Ever.

It appears that the FDA is sleeping with social conservatives. Now if social conservatives are all about abstinence, shouldn't they control their urges?

The FDA overruled it's own advisory panel, for the second time in fifty years, after W. David Hager, an OB/GYN on the panel, wrote a memo. The issue in question was regarding the over the counter sale of emergency contraception, Plan B. The advisory panel had voted overwhelmingly, 24 - 4 in favor of making Plan B available over the counter.

So, this Hagar fellow wrote this memo supposedly "from a scientific perspective," stating that they had too little information on how it would affect girls younger than 16.

But rather than voice his ethical opposition to the product, Hager
emphasized his concern about adolescents, which other committee
members have since called a "political fig leaf." According to Dr.
James Trussell, who voted in favor of Plan B, the FDA had at hand six
studies examining whether teens as young as 15 would increase their
"risky" behavior if they knew they had a backup emergency
contraceptive--and none of the studies showed any evidence for that
contention.

So, this one guy has an opinion and it overrides the opinions of 24 others on the advisory panel and six studies on the topic. Go figure.

Now The Nation has some even juicer tidbits about the "family values" of W. David Hagar.

According to Davis (Linda Carruth Davis, his ex-wife), Hager's
public moralizing on sexual matters clashed with his deplorable treatment
of her during their marriage. Davis alleges that between 1995 and their
divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent.
Several sources on and off the record confirmed that she had told them it
was the sexual and emotional abuse within their marriage that eventually
forced her out. "I probably wouldn't have objected so much, or felt it was
so abusive if he had just wanted normal [vaginal] sex all the time," she
explained to me. "But it was the painful, invasive, totally nonconsensual
nature of the [anal] sex that was so horrible."

[...]

Sometime between the births of Neal and Jonathan (two of their sons), Hager embarked on an affair with a Bible-study classmate who was a friend of Davis's

[...]

Sometimes Hager would blithely shift from vaginal to anal sex. Davis protested. "He would say, 'Oh, I didn't mean to have anal sex with you; I
can't feel the difference,'" Davis recalls incredulously. "And I would say,
'Well then, you're in the wrong business.'"

[...]

For the next seven years Hager sodomized Davis without her consent
while she slept roughly once a month until their divorce in 2002, she
claims. "My sense is that he saw [my narcolepsy] as an opportunity."

How men like Hagar can claim to be Christians with high values is beyond me. He raped his wife repeatedly And he's an OB/GYN to boot, who can't tell the difference between vaginal and anal sex. Geez.