Tuesday, November 26, 2002

NYTimes -- Critics Say Government Deleted Web Site Material to Push Abstinence

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.

Republican policy is to appease the social conservatives. This is not the highest policy but as long as it does not oppose the big agendas of supporting the top 0.1% and supporting huge business, the social conservative agenda will be pushed.

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