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- NATION, Page 33American NotesHEALTHCondom Cornucopia
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- When the program was first proposed last December, it set off
- a storm of protest from parents and religious leaders, who feared
- it would encourage sexual promiscuity. But New York City schools
- chancellor Joseph Fernandez insisted the urgency of preventing
- AIDS outweighed all other considerations. That argument
- prevailed, and last week two city high schools began distributing
- condoms, without parental consent, to any student who requested
- them.
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- Alerted again to the risks of heterosexually transmitted
- AIDS by Magic Johnson's revelations, students lined the
- hallways to get the handouts. By the end of next year condoms
- will be available to 260,000 students at 120 schools. Chicago,
- Miami and Los Angeles already have smaller, clinic-based
- programs that make prophylactics available to high school
- students; San Francisco and Philadelphia are planning similar
- schemes.
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