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- <text id=91TT2722>
- <title>
- Dec. 09, 1991: American Notes:Health
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- HEALTH
- Condom Cornucopia
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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