Friday, February 13, 2004
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Yahoo! News - Bush Advocates Abstinence-Only Education
Abstinence education should be part of a comprehensive educational program. Ignoring the fact that teens have sex is irresponsible. Condoms save lives, prevent disease, and reduce unwanted pregnancies. Maybe George's brother Neil's life would be less complicated if he'd learned to put a helmet on his solder.
President's brother Neil enmeshed in messy divorce
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The Bush administration is proposing to double spending on sexual abstinence programs that bar any discussion of birth control or condoms to prevent pregnancy or AIDS (news - web sites) despite a lack of evidence that such programs work.Arrrrrgh! Bush hates science. That's the only explanation I can come to.
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In Minnesota, a study found that sexual activity doubled among junior high school students taking part in an abstinence-only program. The independent study, commissioned by the state's health department, recommended broadening the program to include more information about contraception.
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Advocates of comprehensive sex education said the shift, coupled with the additional money, is part of Bush's election-year appeal to conservatives.
They said the administration's proposal flies in the face of research that credits both abstinence and contraception with reducing the teenage birth rate by 30 percent in the past decade to historic lows.
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"Kids in society are saturated with information about contraception and messages about encouraging casual, permissive sex," said Robert Rector, who helped write the administration's abstinence education program.
Rector discounted the Minnesota study as unscientific and said the CDC research does not give enough credit to abstinence.
Abstinence education should be part of a comprehensive educational program. Ignoring the fact that teens have sex is irresponsible. Condoms save lives, prevent disease, and reduce unwanted pregnancies. Maybe George's brother Neil's life would be less complicated if he'd learned to put a helmet on his solder.
President's brother Neil enmeshed in messy divorce
In the annals of embarrassing presidential relatives, Neil Bush is no Billy Carter or Roger Clinton.And this from the divorce trial:
But his messy divorce has produced some eye-opening disclosures. Among them: He had sex with women who showed up uninvited at his hotel rooms in Asia; he had an affair and may have fathered a child out of wedlock
Here are some stomach-flipping excerpts of Sharon Bush's attorney, Marshall Davis Brown, mercilessly grilling President Bush's wayward little brother:You should always wear a condom when having sex with Bangkok prostitutes, especially if you're the president's brother. Neil is a shining example of the failure of abstinence only education.
Bush: "I had sexual intercourse with perhaps three or four, I don't remember the exact number, women, at different times. In Thailand once, I have a pretty clear recollection that there was one time in Thailand and in Hong Kong."
Brown: "And you were married to Mrs. Bush?"
Bush: "Yes."
Brown: "Is that where you caught the venereal diseases?"
Bush: "No."
Brown: "Where did you catch those?"
Bush: "Diseases plural? I didn't catch..."
Brown: "Well, I'm sorry. How ... how many venereal diseases do you suffer from?"
Bush: "I've had one venereal disease."
Brown: "Which was?"
Bush: "Herpes."
