Abstinence stigma

Working against what works | Andrée Seu

When Iona Nikitchenko, Joseph Stalin's hand-picked jurist for the Nuremberg tribunal, showed up for duty, he asked his fellow judges, "What is meant in the English by 'cross-examine'?" Not a good sign.

The biannual National STD Prevention Conference, which met last month in Jacksonville, Fla., was not much in the mood for cross-examination either. Leaders had packed the court with a pretty parcel of preening advocates of politically popular solutions for sexually transmitted diseases.

The politically unpopular solution is abstinence, of course. Its invitation to the ball was conspicuously overlooked, at least in the view of Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.), who chairs the House subcommittee on drug policy. He challenged the composition of a panel without a speaker supporting abstinence programs, and with all speakers set to deliver presentations against abstinence.

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