FDA official puts principle and science ahead of politics and quits

i don't know her and i will probably never meet her but my hat is off to susan wood... this country needs a stampede of public officials, civil service and appointee, who are willing to stick to their guns about what's right and not what's politically motivated...

The director of the Food and Drug Administration's office of women's health resigned yesterday to protest the agency's decision last week to further delay approving over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill.

"I feel very strongly that this shouldn't be about abortion politics," the director, Dr. Susan F. Wood, who is an assistant F.D.A. commissioner, said in a telephone interview. "This is a way to prevent unwanted pregnancy and thereby prevent abortion. This should be something that we should all agree on."

In an e-mail message to staff members, Dr. Wood wrote that she could no longer serve at the agency "when scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated and recommended for approval by the professional staff here, has been overruled."

bush is RUINING the u.s... he needs to be stopped...

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