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| May 20, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Byline: Jill Filipovic

Who needs science when the Bush administration is in charge? First, leaders removed accurate information about condom effectiveness from government health Web sites and posted inaccurate information linking abortion to breast cancer. Then, the president appointed several an anti-choice zealots to the Food and Drug Administration's Reproductive Health Advisory Committee, including Dr. David Hager, who refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women and recommends prayer as an antidote to premenstrual syndrome.

The so-called "partial birth abortion" ban used a politically loaded, non-medical term to…

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