I’m not going to go into this in detail, but wouldn’t it also be prudent to educate our young better about the risks involved with unwanted sexual contact? I personally never heard anything in school about contracting STD’s from rape, or being tested for STD’s after a rape. This is such a closet issue in the US that it should be a concern, especially since most rapes are perpetrated by someone the victim knows well.

The real point we should take from this article/editorial is not necessarily about sexual education in the US, we should think about the fact that money is being requested from us as taxpayers to help people in dire need, and that money is not going where it should be. It’s absolutely disgraceful that we are essentially taking money from charity to supplement our education system, let alone that the money goes to further ignorance. Top that off with the fact that good’ol GW is trying to make it look like he actually cares about the AIDS epidemic. I think most of his sudden plea to help AIDS ridden countries in Africa is just a PR move before the G8 summit coming up. Our efforts to help the AIDS epidemic can be much better directed than just throwing money at the problem, which by the by, we don’t contribute nearly as much in relation to GDP as other industrialized nations. What about giving financial incentives to pharmacutical companies to develop better and cheaper HIV vaccines? If we are going to take money from a bill like this and apply it to our education system, why not funnel the money to medical universities researching the structure of the AIDS virus and potential cures? We’re taking money from a worthwhile cause, misapplying it, and wondering why the virus continues to spread… Wow.

I wonder how the children BORN with the virus would react to knowing they can’t afford their medication because kids in the US need to learn not to have sex or they’ll get a virus and go to hell.