<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Jenifer Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com">jencart13@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Well... it's not so tenuous when Catholics (and others in power) prevent accessibility to birth control. As I recall, back in the day, CT permitted the sale of condoms only for the prevention of disease... and then there are the fights currently raging about the morning after pill...<div>
--Jenifer </div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div>George W. Bush was not Catholic, but he made it so that the African countries suffering from high HIV/AIDS could only get help from the US if they did not give out condoms. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Abstinence is a great form of birth control. But most of us see the problem with that.</div><div><br></div><div>So, I come back to Bob Illyes and say, we must educate men as well. </div><div>Overall, I say:</div>
<div>Educating women in a society where women are already a bit empowered is a darn good thing. </div><div>Demanding that developing countries control their populations is ridiculous when we cannot control our consumption of their natural resources and our use of their land as our kitchen midden (garbage dump).</div>
<div><br></div><div>-karen medina</div><div> </div></div>
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