"I believe condoms [are] part of the solution to the HIV/AIDS crisis,
and I encourage their use by young people who are sexually active.
You've got to protect yourself. ... Forget about taboos, forget about
conservative ideas. ... It's the lives of young people that are put
at risk by unsafe sex, and therefore protect yourself." - Colin Powell
Consider, if you will, last summer's report from the Department of
Health and Human Services titled, "Scientific Evidence on Condom
Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention."
The report first gave the numbers of new cases of STDs in the year:
63,000 new cases of HIV/AIDS, 70,000 of syphilis, 650,000 of
gonorrhea, 1 million of genital herpes, 3 million of chlamydia, 5
million of trichomoniasis, 5.5 million of human papillomavirus.
The study then coldly concluded there is "no clinical proof" of the
effectiveness of condoms in preventing genital herpes, syphilis,
chancroid, trichomoniasis or chlamydia, and no clinical proof of
their effectiveness in preventing gonorrhea in women, though condoms
do offer "some risk protection" for men against gonorrhea.
Condoms also do provide 85 percent protection against the HIV/AIDS
virus, or roughly the odds one has of escaping unscathed when playing
Russian roulette with a six-shooter with one chamber lethally loaded
? if you're interested in playing Russian roulette.
Thus, according to our own government, condoms are a fraud. And
partly because they believed that fraud, 45 million Americans now
suffer from herpes, for which there is no known cure, and 900,000
suffer from HIV/AIDS.
Are these diseases spreading because of a lack of availability of
condoms? "The federal government has spent $3
billion in the last 30 years to promote the safe-sex ideology, and
it's been a disaster. At the time they started, there were only two
sexually transmitted diseases that were at an epidemic level, and
there are now more than 20. One in three Americans over 10 years of
age has a sexually transmitted disease."
Former Congressman Dr. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma says that the
Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control. "The
failure of public-health efforts to prevent the STD epidemic in
America," says Coburn, "is related to CDC's 'safe-sex' promotion and
its attempt to withhold from the American people the truth of condom
ineffectiveness."
"[T]he CDC has systematically hidden and misrepresented vital medical
evidence regarding the ineffectiveness of condoms to prevent the
transmission of STDs. The CDC's refusal to acknowledge clinical
research has contributed to the massive STD epidemic."
And because women believed that "condoms would protect them during
intercourse," says Coburn, "millions of women in our country now
suffer from the ravages of diseases, including pelvic cancer
infections, infertility and cervical cancer."
Coburn calls for the same kind of warning labels on condoms as we put
on cigarette packs. If what their ex-colleague says is true, Congress
ought to stop worrying about Enron and get to the bottom of this
scandal at CDC, which may have contributed to the ruin of the lives
of millions of unsuspecting American women.
Powell's advice would appear to have been on the same
moral plane as telling teens who drink and shoot drugs to be sure to
use clean needles and buy only bonded whiskey.
and I encourage their use by young people who are sexually active.
You've got to protect yourself. ... Forget about taboos, forget about
conservative ideas. ... It's the lives of young people that are put
at risk by unsafe sex, and therefore protect yourself." - Colin Powell
Consider, if you will, last summer's report from the Department of
Health and Human Services titled, "Scientific Evidence on Condom
Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention."
The report first gave the numbers of new cases of STDs in the year:
63,000 new cases of HIV/AIDS, 70,000 of syphilis, 650,000 of
gonorrhea, 1 million of genital herpes, 3 million of chlamydia, 5
million of trichomoniasis, 5.5 million of human papillomavirus.
The study then coldly concluded there is "no clinical proof" of the
effectiveness of condoms in preventing genital herpes, syphilis,
chancroid, trichomoniasis or chlamydia, and no clinical proof of
their effectiveness in preventing gonorrhea in women, though condoms
do offer "some risk protection" for men against gonorrhea.
Condoms also do provide 85 percent protection against the HIV/AIDS
virus, or roughly the odds one has of escaping unscathed when playing
Russian roulette with a six-shooter with one chamber lethally loaded
? if you're interested in playing Russian roulette.
Thus, according to our own government, condoms are a fraud. And
partly because they believed that fraud, 45 million Americans now
suffer from herpes, for which there is no known cure, and 900,000
suffer from HIV/AIDS.
Are these diseases spreading because of a lack of availability of
condoms? "The federal government has spent $3
billion in the last 30 years to promote the safe-sex ideology, and
it's been a disaster. At the time they started, there were only two
sexually transmitted diseases that were at an epidemic level, and
there are now more than 20. One in three Americans over 10 years of
age has a sexually transmitted disease."
Former Congressman Dr. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma says that the
Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control. "The
failure of public-health efforts to prevent the STD epidemic in
America," says Coburn, "is related to CDC's 'safe-sex' promotion and
its attempt to withhold from the American people the truth of condom
ineffectiveness."
"[T]he CDC has systematically hidden and misrepresented vital medical
evidence regarding the ineffectiveness of condoms to prevent the
transmission of STDs. The CDC's refusal to acknowledge clinical
research has contributed to the massive STD epidemic."
And because women believed that "condoms would protect them during
intercourse," says Coburn, "millions of women in our country now
suffer from the ravages of diseases, including pelvic cancer
infections, infertility and cervical cancer."
Coburn calls for the same kind of warning labels on condoms as we put
on cigarette packs. If what their ex-colleague says is true, Congress
ought to stop worrying about Enron and get to the bottom of this
scandal at CDC, which may have contributed to the ruin of the lives
of millions of unsuspecting American women.
Powell's advice would appear to have been on the same
moral plane as telling teens who drink and shoot drugs to be sure to
use clean needles and buy only bonded whiskey.
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