Pro-Life?
The UN is disturbed that US abstinence programs in Africa are helping to spread AIDS:
Stephen Lewis, the U.N. secretary-general’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said Christian ideology was driving Washington’s AIDS assistance program known as PEPFAR with disastrous results such as a shortage of condoms in Uganda.
Yes — Our policy seems to be that if you do have sex you deserve to die horribly — rather then have a condom. How in the name of all that is holy can these people live with themselves?
Over at Pandagon there’s a more ironic post on the same topic. . . .
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