Good old Dubya has nixed a project approved by Congress to spend 34 million $ on women’s health in foreign countries. This project would have promoted contraception in the third world and worked against the spread of AIDS and the practice of genital mutilation. Oh, and by the way, he wants to spend 135 million $ domestically on promoting abstinence.

Fine. But George also wants to appoint W. David Hager as chairman of the Food and Drug Administration’s panel on women’s health policy. Hager is a gynecologist who will not prescribe the pill to unmarried women, will not insert IUDs or perform abortions. He is working towards having the FDA’s approval for the abortion pill reversed.

That’s not even the kicker. According to Hager, the man who could be making policy about women’s health, a good cure for PMS is reading the Bible. I’d like to see him try that at a women’s prison, where the inmates’ cycles are all synchronized.

I’m going to see Bowling for Columbine tonight, so I’m pretty sure my opinion of American policy isn’t about to improve.

(Thanks for the link Gene)