Probably.
I remember when President George Bush pledged $15 billion to help reduce AIDS in Africa. I wasn’t too pleased. I’m hardly ever pleased about the government sending billions of dollars.
Close to 25 percent of that money goes to groups that promote abstinence outside marriage and fidelity within marriage. The policy prohibited aid to organizations that counseled for and performed abortions, with the usual “rape, incest, or woman’s health” exception. (I don’t hold to such exceptions.)
Focusing on abstinence has paid off in countries like Uganda, where the AIDS rate has decreased from 15 percent to five percent. In Kenya, HIV infection rates among unmarried young adults have dropped by two-thirds. Why? Because they curbed an activity we Bible thumpers call fornication. Well, that’s what God calls it.
Apparently some have complained that Bush’s policies impede efforts to push condoms and “family planning” — a euphemism for child killing – despite positive results of the policies. With an infanticide-supporting man like Barack Obama in charge of things, pro-child killing “family planners” will get their wish. (Source – Also see LifeNews.com)
Susan F. Wood, co-chairman of Obama’s advisory committee for women’s health, said abstinence, fidelity, and pro-life requirements “have set back sexually transmitted disease prevention and family planning globally…We [we???] have been going in the wrong direction and we need to turn it around and be promoting prevention and family-planning services and strengthening public health.”
By the way, I learned something new today. Abstinence before marriage, fidelity within marriage, and protecting the unborn are “narrow, political ideology.”
President-Elect Barack Obama’s gift to the motherland: Obligation-free sex for the men, and dead babies for the women!
Yes we can!
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