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Opposition to Condoms Is Shortsighted, Deadly; Calls for Chastity Won't Work
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The Washington Post
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December 11, 1990
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New York City's superintendent of schools proposed last week
that condoms would be made available, without parental consent, to
the city's 261,000 high-school students. This program, similar to
condom distribution policies initiated by health departments in
Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Talbot County, Md., is an
attempt to arrest the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted
diseases.
Yet just as quickly as these lifesaving policies can be
unveiled, opponents, including the archdioceses of New York City and
Boston and fundamentalist groups, have denounced them as sending the
message, "Do whatever you want, but do it safely."
But despite objections to the widespread promotion of ...