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GAO: Bush’s Abstinence Plan Hampering AIDS EffortsPosted on Apr 5, 2006Countries with AIDS epidemics actually have to cut the money they spend on treatment in order to conform to Bush’s requirements for spending on abstinence programs, reports the government watchdog. But it’s all good, because this way, God isn’t being offended by people having sex before marriage.
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By Mark Hodges, April 5, 2006 at 7:02 pm #
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The Bush administration is criminal! Nothing more needs to be said!
Report thisBy orionm42, April 5, 2006 at 9:16 am #
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And I’m sure his daughters are abstaining!
Report thisBy im_not_2_b_nown, April 5, 2006 at 8:37 am #
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i agree with you
Report thisyou live in the continent where the aids was started, there for it is all your falt. i hate black people, and you need to get rid of what you started--------------------------------------AIDS!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Jake Kidde-Hansen, April 5, 2006 at 2:12 am #
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“abstinence until marriage, being faithful thereafter and using condoms in high-risk sexual encounters”
I live in Kenya, and the church here is just as blind as the church is in the USA. Promiscuity and casual sexual encounters are far more common here than the “Moral Majority” like to believe. And the abstinence message has been shown to have failed in many many western European countries, and even in the USA where, I believe, higher rates of teen pregancies are found in the areas where abstinence policies were most strongly advocated.
In the case where the spread of HIV/AIDS is a particular problem, such as in low-income urban and rural communities in Kenya, the ABC approach is not only failing, it is irresponsible.
When will the “Moral Majority” get off their high horses and see what the reality is. I hate to blame it on religion, but I unfortunately and clearly, that it is the most plausible reason for these irrational and failing policies: religion.
Sheesh!
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