Dallas County commissioners to vote on condom ban

[The Straight Story]

Dallas County commissioners to vote on condom ban

Dallas County commissioners will decide this morning whether to allow county health workers to distribute free condoms in high-risk neighborhoods to combat the spread of HIV.

Before 1995, county health workers routinely ventured into communities to hand out condoms and needle sterilization kits to those with the greatest risk of infection. But that year, a narrow majority of commissioners voted to end the practice, saying it encouraged illegal and immoral behavior.

Commissioner John Wiley Price raised the issue in a December meeting after looking at county AIDS statistics, saying it's time to admit that abstinence education doesn't work.

When they enacted the condom ban, commissioners approved regulations requiring county health programs to emphasize abstinence.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-condoms_13met.ART0.State.Edition1.4b3f4d3.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. We need to combat the multiplication of Cowboy fans too. nt

[Lithos]

2. Good for them

Abstinence education doesn't work.

[AndyA]

4. Yeah, just ask Bristol Palin about abstinence.

She won't even know what it is.

[Donnachaidh]

5. she probably thinks it's something Suzanne Sommers sells on QVC. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

3. It makes me feel so patriotic

when I read of some fuckwad "commissioner" voicing concern about illegal and immoral behavior.

[Javaman]

6. and yet texas is 3rd on the list of teen pregnancies. more stupid from the right wing. nt