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Forbidden Words

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

April 9, 2002

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Letter to the editor: "How do you teach teenagers about safe sex without even whispering the word 'condom' ("Condoms as a Problem Word: Iran Grapples with a Surge in AIDS," news article, April 4)? [Summarized in the PNU on April 4.]

"Many might be surprised to find that the United States is not unlike Iran in struggling with this question. A small Congressional faction quietly slipped a provision into the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 allocating millions for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs -- programs that, like those in Iran, must censor information about condoms for the prevention of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, including HIV.

"President Bush has requested a 33 percent increase in next year's budget for these misguided programs.

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"It is time for the United States to follow the suggestions of more than 100 leading public health organizations and stop financing programs that require teachers to censor life-saving information for our nation's youth."

The author is president of Advocates for Youth.


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Adapted from:
New York Times
04.07.02; James Wagoner

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