Oppose the Crawford Nomination: he's trying to block birth control, let's block him!

• by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
• recipient: U.S. Senators

President Bush has nominated Lester Crawford, who helped block attempts to improve women’s access to birth control, for the top job at the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

During Crawford's tenure as acting commissioner, the FDA has ignored the recommendation from its own scientific and medical experts and blocked "Plan B", which is an application to make the morning-after pill available without a prescription.

Speak out with two Senate Democratic leaders, Patty Murray from Washington and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who are holding up his nomination until the FDA acts on the application.

Urge your senators to join Senators Murray and Clinton and oppose the Crawford nomination.

UPDATE: On July 15th, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) succeeded in pressuring the Food and Drug Administration to make a decision on "Plan B", a petition to make the "morning-after" pill available to women over the counter instead of by prescription. The FDA now has until to September 1st to decide whether to go along with the doctors and scientists who overwhelmingly support giving women over-the-counter access to the pill or capitulate to pressure from the radical right, which strongly opposes the measure. Consequently, the senators have lifted their hold on Lester Crawford's nomination to become the new FDA Commissioner.