From: Hermit (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 02:57:58 MST
[b][u]OPG Alert: Urge CDC and USDA to Provide Safe-Sex Info to Youth[/b][/u]
On March 9, 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed a National Prevention Information Network (NIPN) website link to the Coalition for Positive Sexuality (CPS) website called positive.org, apparently caving in to pressure from the right-wing Physicians Consortium and the Focus on the Family\'s James Dobson.
Positive.org explains to youth how to protect themselves from disease by engaging in safe sex practices, such as wearing a condom to prevent HIV transmission. The site also offers information about birth control, abortion, and sexual orientation.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) public affairs specialist Maria Bynum declared that the USDA would also remove links to positive.org and possibly other websites from the cyfernet.org website.
Please contact CDC and USDA urging them not to abandon sexually active young people, to make sure they can access not only information about abstinence, but also this life-saving information about sexually transmitted disease prevention, and to suggest restoring the links to positive.org and any similar site links.
[b][u]To take action on this alert, please go to:
[move][url]http://onlinepolicy.org/action/cdcusdaalert.shtml[/b][/u][/url][/move]
Sincerely,
Will Doherty
Executive Director
Online Policy Group
---- This message was posted by Hermit to the Virus 2002 board on Church of Virus BBS. <http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=16;action=display;threadid=>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Sep 25 2002 - 13:28:45 MDT