While you were sleeping…
I have remained, on this blog at least, silent over the absolute asinine way our government has handled the Katrina debacle. I have ranted and raved elsewhere, keeping my little blog clean of the profanities that have streamed out of my mouth.
Quite frankly, I was quiet because I am lazy. *hangs head in shame*
I am not going to rehash it here; if you know me, you know how I feel. It was a complete clusterfuck and I’m ashamed of my government. We’ll just leave it at that.
However, while we were all staring at our television in horror, crying and ranting in fury and shame, the FDA pulled a quiet little stunt so mind boggling that I’m still trying to figure out the why of it.
On August 31, Susan Wood resigned her post as the Director of the Office of Women’s Health. She cites the continuing limiting of access to “Plan B” as her reason. Who can blame her? The FDA continues to dink around with this, giving no clear cut reason to deny the access of an emergency method of birth control as an over-the-counter product. And just so you aren’t confused, this drug is NOT the same as RU-486. It is not “abortion in a bottle”, it is an emergency contraceptive. And it is completely ignorant to not have it available OTC. Period.
Getting back on track… I’m so tweaked out that I’m close to ranting…
As mentioned, Dr. Wood resigns. And we all sigh and say, “Who can blame her?” And then, proving once again that our government is completely out of touch with reality, on September 16 FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford appoints a new Acting Director. One Dr. Norris Alderson, the agency’s associate commissioner for science, who has spent much of his career in FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine. Yes, that’s right, animal husbandry. We women are, after all, just cattle.
*stream of profanities too obscene for public consumption*
Picked up quickly by women’s organizations, including Planned Parenthood, the FDA backpedals and sends out a different press release. So who’s in charge? Theresa Toigo has been named acting director, and the FDA claims they never announced anyone other than that.
WTF? How about this Google cache? Mmmm… love me some technology!
I’m not sure what frustrates me more, that it happened in the first place, that they lied about it, that there was so little reported in the mainstream media, or that I am so far behind the times that I didn’t hear about it when it happened. I’m still so pissed off that I’m seeing red.
Fucktards.