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Re: Also seen on CNN
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Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:05:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/12/02/scotus.sodomy/index.html
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> Let's hope the Supremes reverse their 1986 thinking... government has no
> business legislating behaviour between/among consenting adults.
Here's yet another piece of progressive action from our Texas-based
administration:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/national/26ABST.html?ex=1039064400&en=d77618e5acd0ff92&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
Here's the important bit, in case the article's been moved to a members-only
pay archive:
Critics Say Government Deleted Web Site Material to Push Abstinence
> WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — Information on condom use, the relation between
> abortion and breast cancer and ways to reduce sex among teenagers has been
> removed from government Web sites, prompting critics to accuse the Department
> of Health and Human Services of censoring medical information in order to
> promote a philosophy of sexual abstinence.
> Over the last year, the department has quietly expunged information on how
> using condoms protects against AIDS, how abortion does not increase the risk
> of breast cancer and how to run programs proven to reduce teenage sexual
> activity. The posting that found no link between abortion and breast cancer
> was removed from the department's Web site last June, after Representative
> Christopher H. Smith, a New Jersey Republican who is co-chairman of the House
> Pro-Life Caucus, wrote a letter of protest to Secretary Tommy Thompson
> calling the research cited by the National Cancer Institute "scientifically
> inaccurate and misleading to the public."
The above excerpt is reproduced for discussion and editorial review, and
its inclusion here is not intended as a challenge to the copyright status of
the article.
What we see here is a clear effort by a far-right administration to
mandate morality and, in Grand Papal Tradition, to suppress science when it
contradicts or is awkward to dogma.
Dave!
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