Handing out condoms in prison: What do you think?
on September 21st, 2006 at 2:25 amFirst the news:
Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced Saturday, September 16 new legislation she is proposing that would allow condoms to be distributed in prisons in an effort to prevent sexually transmitted infections…
…Lee welcomed the panelists and organizations present, and spoke about her two new pieces of HIV/AIDS legislation – H.R. 2553, the Responsible Education About Life Act, and the Stop STIs in Prisons Act.
H.R. 2553 will create a grant program that allows states (currently prohibited from receiving federal funding for sexual education and prevention programs that do not adhere to the Bush administration’s mandated abstinence-only-until-marriage doctrine) “to implement a comprehensive approach to sex education that includes information about both contraception and abstinence.”
The Stop STIs in Prisons Act will allow community organizations to distribute condoms in U.S. prisons, where the rates of HIV and hepatitis C infections are on the rise.(more…)
This is one of those few topics that I feel free to discuss here, but I know how raw (graphic) I can be with it. While I’m still thinking this one over, if you have an opinion please share.
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