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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (19680)	7/30/2001 5:31:41 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Hey, breea! Good news for you today! While W may not have immediately fallen in line behind the Pope in stem cell research, he does seem to be fully endorsing the "every sperm is sacred" doctrine. Administration Promoting Abstinence Family Planning Efforts Are Being Scaled washingtonpost.com The Bush administration is making a fundamental change in how the federal government approaches issues involving reproductive health, scaling back efforts to promote family planning and contraception while aggressively promoting "abstinence-only" programs. Since taking office, President Bush and top aides have refused to allow states to expand family planning services for poor women, reimposed a ban on abortion counseling at overseas health clinics, released a report questioning the effectiveness of condoms and proposed eliminating mandatory contraceptive coverage for federal employees. Most recently, an ordained Catholic deacon working in the Department of Health and Human Services raised questions about a program developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help parents talk to youngsters about sexual health because he believes it runs counter to the Catholic beliefs of HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. At the same time, administration officials are considering plans to consolidate women's health offices and have moved swiftly to boost funding for "abstinence-only" sexual education programs, with the money often going to evangelical Christian groups. And so on. I had to laugh when I got to the beliefs of the famously faithful Tommy Thompson. "Just say no" has worked so well in the war on some drugs, no wonder W wants to expand the scope of that effort.