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Washington News Physician criticized by women's groups named to FDA panel The Associated Press12/25/02 7:09 PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- A physician who has been criticized for his views on birth control was named to a Food and Drug Administration panel on women's health policy. Dr. W. David Hager, a University of Kentucky obstetrician-gynecologist, was among 11 physicians appointed Tuesday to the FDA's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs. Hager has questioned the safety of the abortion pill, RU-486, and acknowledges he is anti-abortion. Abortion-rights activists are concerned about Hager's appointment because he participated in a Christian Medical Association campaign this...

LifeSite Daily News Monday December 16, 2002 KISSINGER WITHDRAWS FROM 9/11 PROBE Pro-abortion Kean named instead WASHINGTON, December 16, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Henry Kissinger withdrew as head of the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks this weekend after it became clear that his multimillion-dollar consulting business, Kissinger Associates, includes Middle Eastern clients who might have come under commission scrutiny. According to a Dec. 17 Newsmax story "critics said Kissinger was stepping aside because he was not prepared to make public the list of his lucrative contracts, including many with foreign governments and other overseas entities". There has been...

PRESIDENT BUSH SURPRISES PRO-LIFE LEADERS BY SELECTING KISSINGER FOR 9-11 POST Kissinger Strongly Implicated in Population Control and Abortion WASHINGTON, November 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - U.S. President George W. Bush announced Wednesday that he had selected former secretary of state Henry Kissinger as chairman of a new independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks. Pro-life leaders were surprised by the selection given the President's aversion to coercive abortion and Kissinger's close association with it. President Bush was praised by the pro-life community internationally for his defunding of the United Nations Population Fund due to their association with the forced...