Conservatives Interfere With Health and Research

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This is another disturbing article of many out there. This lunacy has got to stop! It's fine to have religious and moral convictions, but one man's belief may not be mine and vice versa. To twist and mangle the spirit of studies and programs just to wreck them in the name of a special interest group's moral convictions is unconscionable.


Experts in Sex Field Say Conservatives Interfere With Health and Research
By MIREYA NAVARRO

Published: July 11, 2004


For years, Advocates for Youth, a Washington-based organization devoted to adolescent sexual health, says, it received government grants without much trouble. Then last year it was subjected to three federal reviews.

James Wagoner, the president of Advocates for Youth, said the reviews were prompted by concerns among some members of Congress that his group was using public funds to lobby against programs that promoted sexual abstinence before marriage. Although that was not the case, Mr. Wagoner said, the government officials made their point.

"For 20 years, it was about health and science, and now we have a political ideological approach," he said. "Never have we experienced a climate of intimidation and censorship as we have today."

Mr. Wagoner is among the professionals in sex-related fields who have started speaking out against what they say is growing interference from conservatives in and out of government with their work in research, education and disease prevention.

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