Bush, women, Aids , Africa and the culture of death!!

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This makes my blood boil!!



http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/opinion/30kristof.html?th&emc=th


March 30, 2005

When Marriage Kills

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Livingstone, Zambia — Sex kills all the time, particularly here in Africa. But prudishness can be just as lethal.

President Bush is focusing his program against AIDS in Africa on sexual abstinence and marital fidelity, relegating condoms to a distant third. It's the kind of well-meaning policy that bubbles up out of a White House prayer meeting but that will mean a lot of unnecessary deaths on the ground in Africa.

The stark reality is that what kills young women here is often not promiscuity, but marriage. Indeed, just about the deadliest thing a woman in southern Africa can do is get married.

......Perhaps the White House thinks it has the moral high ground when it preaches, completely irrelevantly, to women like Mrs. Sibanda about the need to be faithful. But it strikes me as hypocritical to pontificate about virtue while pursuing an ideological squeamishness about condoms that risks condemning Mrs. Sibanda and millions like her to die of AIDS.........

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1. And condoms don't cause se"x any more than umbrellas cause rain."

wonderful analogy!!!!!