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WTF?
December 06, 2006 ( politics )
The Dept. of Health and Human Services, on behalf of the president, would like to ask you to not have sex if you're single and under 30.
...Can we figure out some secession plan now?
Update:
From the NYT, via CNN, 95% of Americans are doomed to burn in hell, er, I mean, engage in premarital sex:More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past. ... "The data clearly show that the majority of older teens and adults have already had sex before marriage, which calls into question the federal government's funding of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs for 12- to 29-year-olds," Finer said ... "It would be more effective," Finer said, "to provide young people with the skills and information they need to be safe once they become sexually active -- which nearly everyone eventually will."
The Bush adminstration has responded to critiques on their HHS anti-premarital-sex report and their absintence-only sex-ed:
Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, defended the abstinence-only approach for teenagers."One of its values is to help young people delay the onset of sexual activity," he said. "The longer one delays, the fewer lifetime sex partners they have, and the less the risk of contracting sexually transmitted disease."
He insisted there was no federal mission against premarital sex among adults.
"Absolutely not," Horn said. "The Bush administration does not believe the government should be regulating or stigmatizing the behavior of adults."
...So is this a new policy about not regulating adult activity, or do you not consider homosexuals (or, say, terminally ill patients wishing to end their lives) "adult"?
Posted by griffjon at December 6, 2006 07:16 PM
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