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"In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out."
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Subject: Stop the Killer Horse Hormones

Estrogen hormones derived from animals have dangerous side-effects. Estriol doesn't. But the FDA has banned Estriol in favor of the animal derived hormones. Here's why ...

Wyeth Pharmaceutical makes animal derived hormone medications. On October 6, 2005 Wyeth petitioned the FDA to prohibit the use of Estriol, a competitor to Wyeth's "horse hormones." Estriol is chemically identical to human estrogen, while Wyeth's horse hormones are not. Animal derived hormones are associated with a number of health risks, such as blood clots and cancer, while Estriol is associated with a vast number of health benefits, and NO negative side-effects.

On January 9, 2008 the FDA responded to Wyeth's petition by banning the use of Estriol.

It's infuriating to note that the FDA's response to the Wyeth petition calls it a citizen's petition. It was no such thing. It was a petition from a corporation seeking government aid to prohibit a competing product at the cost of increased danger to women's health. By contrast, 70,000 doctors, women, and other real citizens petitioned the FDA to deny Wyeth's request, but the FDA partially sided with Wyeth anyway.

It's even more infuriating to note that the FDA admitted in a press conference announcing the ban that it knew of no evidence of any harm associated with the use of Estriol.

The American Association for Health Freedom summarizes the case for Estriol as follows: "Compounded bio-identical hormones have been used for 50 years, are listed in the US Pharmacopoeia, are state-regulated, are available only with a doctor’s prescription, and were protected by a previous Act of Congress (FDA Modernization Act 1997)."

The FDA admits that it granted Wyeth's request simply because Estriol has not endured the FDA's costly and time consuming approval process. But should the estrogen that naturally flows in a woman's body have to be approved by the FDA? Of course not. Neither then, should Estriol, which is chemically identical to that estrogen! Estriol is human estrogen.

If Estriol needs to be banned from the market then perhaps all women should report to an FDA lab to have their Estriol removed from their bodies.

We are joining with the American Association for Health Freedom to try to stop this outrage. We want to pass two resolutions in Congress: H. Con. Res. 342 and S. Con. Res. 88. Please ask your Representative and your two Senators to co-sponsor H. Con. Res. 342 and S. Con. Res. 88. You can do so here.

We would also like to note that if Downsize DC's "Write the Laws Act" were the law of the land this FDA action would not have been possible. Please send another message in support of the "Write the Laws Act," and use your personal comments to mention the Estriol ban as a reason why we need the "Write the Laws Act." You can send that message here.

Please also consider making a contribution to further our work. You can do so here.

Thank you for being a part of the growing Downsize DC army.

Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

The turn-on , turn-off "spigot" vasectomy has been on the books since 20 years ago. if a man wants sexual access to a woman's body, HE SHOULD BE THE ONE UNDERGOING SO CALLED "birth control.
Why is it always the woman in our society who "bears the children, bears the worries, and ultimately bears the responsibility for birth control?"
Men are not as brave as they used to be. Even though (and i've talked to a lot of guys who have had the same experience) vasectomy is often not the painless easy procedure it's said to be (believe me, my vasectomy was "botched", and i didn't sue anybody, and i still suffer pain from it off and on, ten years later).
I guess i'm just a bit too "conservative" and "old fashioned" in my thinking, but men are "the expendable ones" in our society; even though they earn the lion's share of most household incomes; get a good life insurance policy and take your fate like a man, men. Putting women on carcinogenic, health compromising chemicals, just so they can make their men not have to worry about procreation, is a "modern sin", not contemplatable by the ancients.

This is typical of the FDA these days, and is partly due to the current adminstration. They managed to stack politcal hacks and cronies into important positions to ensure that big business is taken care of one way or the other whether it's through the FDA for pharamceuticals and bio-altered/chemically altered foods, or it's through the EPA to help the chemical and mining industries to get away with things like increased pollution by weakening the Clean Air Act, or allowing mining and drilling in sensitive natural areas.

I think that once the adminstration has changed, we'll hopefully see a change for the better. I hate to get political as I usually keep this topic out of the forums, but this is all the more reason not to vote for McCain.

John