{"id":2636,"date":"2004-07-02T04:30:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/02\/hagar-the-horrible\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:28:14","slug":"hagar-the-horrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/02\/hagar-the-horrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Hagar the Horrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10677,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/paynter\\\/180369_paynter02.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050326195107\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com:80\\\/paynter\\\/180369_paynter02.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:38:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:38:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10678,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.antiwar.com\\\/casualties&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311074038\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.antiwar.com\\\/casualties\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.antiwar.com\\\/casualties\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>In the midst of a Seattle P-I article about <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/paynter\/180369_paynter02.html?source=rss\" title=\"Pro-choice? Well, now's the time to take action\">trying to convince more young women to vote<\/a> comes this little tidbit of information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This week, Cavendish said, the falling piece of sky was Bush&#8217;s reappointment of &#8220;Hagar the Horrible&#8221; &#8212; W. David Hagar &#8212; to the influential Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee of the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;there were the 25,000 pro-choice activists who pleaded with Bush not to make this move.<\/p>\n<p>  Hagar, Time magazine reports, refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. And in his book, &#8220;Stress and the Woman&#8217;s Body,&#8221; (co-written with his wife, Linda) he recommends reading Scripture as treatment for premenstrual pain.<\/p>\n<p>  More urgent to young women is the fact that Hagar used his position on the reproductive health committee to oppose the otherwise overwhelmingly approved vote to recommend over-the-counter sale of the morning-after contraceptive Plan B. The vote to approve the sale of Plan B was then overruled by the Bush administration.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Old white men using religion to dictate what young women can and can&#8217;t do with their bodies. And people say that there&#8217;s no reason to vote?<\/p>\n<p>I read something earlier this week &#8212; unfortunately, I don&#8217;t remember where &#8212; that gave me pause to think. One of the tactics that the right has used to counter the &#8220;Pro-Choice&#8221; designation of abortion rights activists has been to deem themselves &#8220;Pro-Life&#8221;, implying that Pro-Choice equates to &#8220;Anti-Life&#8221; or &#8220;Pro-Death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Given Bush&#8217;s track record of sending more people to their executions while he was Governor of Texas, plus his railroading America into sending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/casualties\/\" title=\"Casualties in Iraq\">almost 1000 soldiers<\/a> to their deaths in an unjust war, can he <em>really<\/em> campaign on a &#8220;Pro-Life&#8221; platform?<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury&#8221; by Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, The from the album <em>Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury<\/em> (1992, 3:47).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;Hagar used his position on the reproductive health committee to oppose the otherwise overwhelmingly approved vote to recommend over-the-counter sale of the morning-after contraceptive Plan B. 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