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Abstinence Until Marriage - The Most Dangerous HIV Myth

by Storm Bear Williams Monday, Aug. 06, 2001 at 9:20 AM
storm@nauseamanifesto.com

George W. Bush has claimed that abstinence until marriage will prevent the spread of HIV and unwanted pregnancies. This is a reckless lie and it is the strongest attack yet against women and their reproductive rights.

During the last two weeks in the halls of the United States Congress, politicians led by Bush 2.0 have been proclaiming that sex education should eliminate discussions of orientation, reproductive physiology and birth control. Many moves have been made at the state level to remove birth control from public high schools and displace health education teachers from sex education programs.



These changes are taking place in the face of overwhelming evidence that true sexual education lowers sexually transmitted disease, unwanted pregnancies and the suicide rate of gay and lesbian high school students. It is a renaissance of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign only this one is for your genitals.



This latest push for abstinence emphasizes the idea of "don't touch it" and all will be right with the world. The new abstinence encourages people to throw out condoms and ignore millions of years worth of evolution and wide-open hormonal floodgates.



Our state of sex education in America is bad enough without this latest round of Congressional tampering. We do not need to decay education further by imposing ideals that removes text books from classrooms and condoms from the high school health office. Yet, that is the direction we are going.



Once the text books are gone, the health office is closed and school nurse is laid-off, Bush 2.0 wants to replace the education with a heavy dose of abstinence and moral training. He claims that abstinence is the best way to prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and stop unwanted pregnancies. I hate to tell the President this, but only teaching abstinence until marriage does nothing, NOTHING, to prevent the spread of disease or decrease the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies.



It should be widely taught that the human body does not react any differently to exposure to HIV if one practices abstinence or not. The act of marriage does not alter the body's auto-immune system, distribute HIV antibodies or allow women to control pregnancy in anyway whatsoever. Only education and birth control have those life-saving features.



Without sex education, women may not know what is a natural function of the reproductive organs and what is the onset of disease. This has been the case in third world nations where women endure with no access to education. Claiming that abstinence will prevent HIV is a total lie. One can abstain from sex until marriage and be 100% monogamous in the marriage and still contract HIV from an unfaithful or needle-using partner. So did abstinence help? Oh… it helped kill her.



It is also a discredit to women to claim that abstinence until marriage lowers the rate of unwanted pregnancies. How many women have an unwanted pregnancy during marriage? A close examination of married couples living a childless life, shows that that number is quite high. Just because a woman is married does not mean that she, by default, wants to become pregnant. So if she gets pregnant during marriage and does not want to be a Mother, how did abstinence until marriage help her? Oh… it increased the abortion rate.



Abstinence until marriage does not make one invulnerable to HIV or unwanted pregnancies, only education and birth control can come close. Don't be surprised if the Bush 2.0 administration starts telling us that tuberculosis can also be prevented by participating in abstinence until marriage.



Anything is possible when you throw science out the window and replace it with ignorance. (editorial)
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More HIV Myths

by Justice Monday, Aug. 06, 2001 at 9:28 AM

It is good to see that others understand that science means knowledge and religion is superstition. King George II, aided by his Democratic Party supporters as well as the Republican Party, is busy promoting religion which is always used to prop up a war-mongering society.

The myth of HIV is the latest money-making charity racket's way of raising funds to keep themselves in business, just as churches are charity rackets for the priests, preachers, rabbis and other religious racketeers who do not want to work for a living. HIV is one of many viruses in our body. Its connection with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is unproven. AIDS is not a disease, but a condition of immune deficiency. This immune deficiency is caused usually by malnutrition, the most common cause in Africa, and intravenous drugs, the most common cause in the USA. What the US government calls AIDS in the US (the definition varies from country to country) is a group of 29 old diseases, including TB, VD, hepatitis and cancer, which if HIV exists in the body, are called AIDS; otherwise they are given their old disease's name. We have cures for most of these traditional diseases, so changing the name and putting dangerous drugs that are now subject to lawsuits into people's bodies under the pretext of "curing" AIDS is genocide. These drugs, including AZT and protease inhibitors, are known to cause death, paralysis, hump back and other "side effects." AZT is a failed cancer drug with the poison symbol on the wholesale bottle and should never be used by anyone. Malnutrition is of course cured by food. There are 200 million starving people in Africa who need food and free medical care for traditional diseases such as malaria, which they often refer to as "wasting disease," a common feature of "AIDS."

In Africa, HIV tests are not required for diagnosis of AIDS. The definition for "AIDS" in Africa is diarrhea, fever, persistent cough and weight loss of more than 10% over 2 months. This describes many traditional diseases, and thus not properly diagnosing the traditional disease is genocide.

For more on the truth about HIV and "AIDS", and the AIDS charity rackets, see http://www.accountabilityproject.com/, http://www.aliveandwell.org, http://www.magnusnews.com, http://www.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/africa.htm,
http://www.terrydobbin.ottawaweb.com/links.html, http://www.rethinkingaids.com, http://credence.org/aidstour/aidstour2.htm
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More HIV Myths

by Justice Monday, Aug. 06, 2001 at 9:30 AM

It is good to see that others understand that science means knowledge and religion is superstition. King George II, aided by his Democratic Party supporters as well as the Republican Party, is busy promoting religion which is always used to prop up a war-mongering society.

The myth of HIV is the latest money-making charity racket's way of raising funds to keep themselves in business, just as churches are charity rackets for the priests, preachers, rabbis and other religious racketeers who do not want to work for a living. HIV is one of many viruses in our body. Its connection with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is unproven. AIDS is not a disease, but a condition of immune deficiency. This immune deficiency is caused usually by malnutrition, the most common cause in Africa, and intravenous drugs, the most common cause in the USA. What the US government calls AIDS in the US (the definition varies from country to country) is a group of 29 old diseases, including TB, VD, hepatitis and cancer, which if HIV exists in the body, are called AIDS; otherwise they are given their old disease's name. We have cures for most of these traditional diseases, so changing the name and putting dangerous drugs that are now subject to lawsuits into people's bodies under the pretext of "curing" AIDS is genocide. These drugs, including AZT and protease inhibitors, are known to cause death, paralysis, hump back and other "side effects." AZT is a failed cancer drug with the poison symbol on the wholesale bottle and should never be used by anyone. Malnutrition is of course cured by food. There are 200 million starving people in Africa who need food and free medical care for traditional diseases such as malaria, which they often refer to as "wasting disease," a common feature of "AIDS."

In Africa, HIV tests are not required for diagnosis of AIDS. The definition for "AIDS" in Africa is diarrhea, fever, persistent cough and weight loss of more than 10% over 2 months. This describes many traditional diseases, and thus not properly diagnosing the traditional disease is genocide.

For more on the truth about HIV and "AIDS", and the AIDS charity rackets, see http://www.accountabilityproject.com/, http://www.aliveandwell.org, http://www.magnusnews.com, http://www.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/africa.htm,
http://www.terrydobbin.ottawaweb.com/links.html, http://www.rethinkingaids.com, http://credence.org/aidstour/aidstour2.htm
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