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    I read in the paper 2day that the so called global gag rule which stops Washington from giving $ 2 ANY group that performs - or even talks about - abortions & lots of organizations that provide family planning and women's health services have lost their financing and now I read that there are moves in Congress and inside the administration 2 apply a similar rule to needle exchange programs.

    I also read that in parts of Asia, the former Soviet bloc and Eastern Europe,that needles are the major source of infection......and that three-quarters of all newly infected people in Russia are intravenous drug abusers, as are half of those newly infected in China.

    Seems 2 me that it's really f'ing STUPID to exclude healthcare groups that include abortionand MAJORLY f'ing stupid 2 exclude needle exchange programs from getting hiv prevention funds.

    I mean wtf

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    Maybe they are believers in social evolution.

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    Maybe they are believers in social evolution.
    I wouldn't touch that idea with somebody else's ten foot pole LOL

    The next thing we're likely to hear is that GWB and the gov't is now funding comedian Chris Rock !

    PS there's a huge difference between not providing funding to facilitate certain groups promoting certain 'messages' which the present gov't doesn't agree with, and an actual 'gag rule' preventing certain 'messages' from being spoken about at all i.e. "hate speech" laws.

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    here's some more stuff on this subject which I found 2day.......


    A study of 81 cities published in 1997 in the Lancet, a medical journal, found that in cities without needle-exchange programs, HIV infection rates among injection drug users rose by nearly 6 percent per year; by contrast, cities that had introduced free-needle programs witnessed a decrease in infection rates of about the same magnitude.

    Respecting science does not appear to be the administration's priority, however. Not only is it refusing to spend federal dollars on needle exchange, but the administration also is waging a campaign to persuade the United Nations to toe its misguided line. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, which is heavily reliant on U.S. funding, has been made to expunge references to needle exchange from its literature, and the administration is expected to continue its pressure on the United Nations at a meeting that starts March 7. The State Department's new leadership needs to end this bullying flat-earthism. It won't help President Bush's current effort to relaunch his image among allies. And it's almost certain to kill people.

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    Well, in perspective, China simply rounded up all of their 'non-rehabilitatable' drug addicts and simply shot them ! You seem to be implying that by cutting back on secondary funding for drug addict support measures, that the US gov't is essentially doing the same.

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    This sounds to me like Bush simply wanting to see more people suffer and die. He has quit a track record, in my opinion, of finding joy in sending people to their death.

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