BRAVO ABC for Special

ABC offered a powerful piece of journalism last night--"Out of Control: AIDS in America". With incredible restraint by ABC, the common people were allowed to speak their minds. The old rhetoric and headline-grabbing people and events were exposed with a subtlety that was disarming. The late Peter Jennings threw in a zinger while talking with men with AIDS that exposed their self-centered sexual behavior. Terry Moran sealed his position as the rising star of TV journalism.

This piece should be required viewing in every school in America. If this isn't the hot topic "at the water cooler" this morning, there is something wrong with us. There should be a whole bunch of people feeling alot of guilt this morning over what they have said, how they have acted, how they have misled. Thankfully, not a single abstinence advocate will be among them.

FDA and Plan B.

Email sent to FDA RE: Plan B---
I volunteer fulltime to convince adults and youth that sexual activity for the unmarried creates a medical catastrophe of STIs, unwed pregnancy, sexual coercion and abuse, and depression. It has also severely impacted families, marriages, the plight of minorities and entire communities.

Plan B is medically unsound; access should be connected to a prescription following a physical exam. Getting contraception should be a public health opportunity to screen for STI and HIV. It is ludicrous for pregnancy prevention to be dealt with separately from the other health consequences that are far more dangerous than a pregnancy.

But worse, it is another indication that our society is unwilling to say that unwed sexual activity is a health and well-being detriment to self, family and community. It is part of the smokescreen that medical science can "cure" anyone no matter what idiocy was the behavioral cause, and that includes rape and incest. The FDA should not be allowing this country to avoid its problems by sticking "band-aids" on major hemorrages.

There is no evidence that this or any other contraceptive is devoid of future health consequences when taken for the decades some females are now using them. How can you approve something, which had ellicited strong medical doubts to begin with, that makes our young girls guinea pigs for profit. These young girls aren't demanding this, only those with an agenda that scares the heck out of me!