{"id":5785,"date":"2011-12-23T00:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T06:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2011-12-23T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T06:06:29","slug":"president-obama-dont-play-politics-with-the-health-of-women-and-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/president-obama-dont-play-politics-with-the-health-of-women-and-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama: Don&#8217;t Play Politics with the Health of Women and Young People"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Initially there was hope that President Obama would side with the FDA, all available scientific research, and the women of America. Instead, he decided to invoke his power as \u201cDaddy In Chief\u201d and allow a presidential administration \u2013 for the first time ever \u2013 to overrule the FDA on issues of medical science.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum committing his administration to champion science. So why is the President throwing woman\u2019s health under the bus because he\u2019s too scared of the political backlash of doing the right thing?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/the-president-of-the-united-states-dont-play-politics-with-the-health-of-women-and-young-people\">Sign the petition.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially there was hope that President Obama would side with the FDA, all available scientific research, and the women of America. Instead, he decided to invoke his power as \u201cDaddy In Chief\u201d and allow a presidential administration \u2013 for the first time ever \u2013 to overrule the FDA on issues of medical science. In 2009, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/president-obama-dont-play-politics-with-the-health-of-women-and-young-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Obama: Don&#8217;t Play Politics with the Health of Women and Young People<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[276],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1vj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}