X-Message-Number: 4524
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 11:33:55 CDT
From:  (Patrick Hopkins)
Subject: FDA and regulation

Thomas Donaldson writes
>>As for what I HOPE, I hope that by then the FDA either will simply not exist,
or will still exist as a far smaller agency with, perhaps, only the power to
decide that a brand of drug has been adulterated or not. And there is some
reason to believe that this hope will come true. If your congressman is a 
Republican, you might write him about the FDA. Saul Kent has been fighting 
the FDA for some time, and I'm sure that anyone who contacts him to do 
something in this battle will get a nice reception.
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I wanted to point out that just because the Republicans dislike the FDA 
doesn't mean that they won't find other ways to restrict cryonics activity.
After all, in the same bill that deregulates the communications industry
(in the name of smaller gov't and keeping the state out of individuals' lives)
the Senate okayed the Exon amendment which attempts to censor all computer
communications.  Of course, Exon is a democrat, but his amendment was lobbied
for heavily by such Republican mainstays as The Christian Coalition and other
conservative organizations.  These sorts of organizations tend to oppose any
technology that appears to interfere with what they see as "natural" ways
of living.

Patrick Hopkins


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