Pornographer Sues Bush over Anti-Prostitution Measure

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Pornographer Sues Bush over Anti-Prostitution Measure

WASHINGTON, August 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - US porn king, Philip D. Harvey, is suing the Bush administration over its anti-prostitution policies saying that the restriction on USAID funding is an "unconstitutional infringement of speech." Harvey, the founder and chief executive of one of the world's largest mail-order pornography and sex merchandise businesses is also the founder and president of DKT International which promotes condoms and abortion in the developing world and is a major player in the population control movement.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Bush administration says that U.S. and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) receiving USAID funding must adopt a policy "explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking."

A common position of many condom and abortion advocates is the attempt to legitimize prostitution, calling it the "sex trade," and depicting it as a legitimate profession. DKT International insists that the "sex trade" cannot be stopped, and that condoms are the only way to stop AIDS. "We accept what they do as part of the reality of today's world," says Harvey, "and we do our best to empower them so they can adopt practices that will minimize the risk of HIV transmission."

Harvey has a long record of winning his legal battles on the grounds of freedom of speech, his experience going back to the 1970's when he first began a mail order condom and pornography business while selling condoms over state lines was illegal. Under the Reagan administration, he successfully fought criminal obscenity charges and now receives considerable funding for his international projects from USAID without any fear of legal interference.

more - http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/aug/05082505.html

Not a very friendly article, but Phil Harvey has been in involved in world-wide AID's prevention and family planning for many years now.