R.J.

This is a clear example of biased censorship, and it clearly crosses the line which SHOULD separate Church and State!!
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/national/26ABST.html?todaysheadlines=&pagewanted=print&posi tion=top" target="_blank">Link</a>
November 26, 2002 -- Critics Say Government Deleted Web Site Material to Push Abstinence -- By ADAM CLYMER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — Information on condom use, the relation between abortion and breast cancer and ways to reduce sex among teenagers has been removed from government Web sites, prompting critics to accuse the Department of Health and Human Services of censoring medical information in order to promote a philosophy of sexual abstinence. Over the last year, the department has quietly expunged information on how using condoms protects against AIDS, how abortion does not increase the risk of breast cancer and how to run programs proven to reduce teenage sexual activity. The posting that found no link between abortion and breast cancer was removed from the department's Web site last June, after Representative Christopher H. Smith, a New Jersey Republican who is co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus, wrote a letter of protest to Secretary Tommy Thompson calling the research cited by the National Cancer Institute "scientifically inaccurate and misleading to the public." The removal of the information has set off protests from other members of Congress, mainly Democrats, and has prompted a number of liberal health advocacy groups to accuse the department of bowing to pressure from social conservatives.
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This is a clear example of biased censorship, and it clearly crosses the line which SHOULD separate Church and State!!

[ November 26, 2002: Message edited by: Toto ]

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Toto

The same topic is discussed here:

<a href="http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=59&t=000848" target="_blank">Abstinence Only wages war on science</a>

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Toto

Something is awry with UBB. The link is:

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/national/26ABST.html" target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/national/26ABST.html</a>

But I can't edit it in the original post.

[ November 26, 2002: Message edited by: Toto ]</p>

MacPrince

Edit: Never mind.

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