The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior
On June 28, Surgeon General David Satcher unveiled science-based strategies which he said represent an effort to find "common ground" upon which the nation could work to promote sexual health and responsible sexual behavior.
Curiously, you can only find this report if you look at the way the Surgeon General's site is organized and make a guess as to where it is. It's not currently linked to either the what's new page or the Surgeon General's Reports page.
Bush II Fraudulency was not amused by this report; supposedly "Bush strongly objected to portions of Satcher's report and had little confidence in him." Although, of course, he doesn't really know what's in it: Bush did not read Satcher's full report himself but was briefed on it, [Administration Spokesbeing Ari] Fleischer added. I can understand that he can't read everything that comes out of the government -- it produces an awesome amount of information, to be sure -- but you think he'd want to actually read major policy documents being issued during his reign.
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Bush would have no reason to read it because in his narrow view, the only way to talk about sex is to say "abstain" and be done with it. When Sacher calls for "a mature, thoughtful, and respectful discussion nationwide about sexuality", that, in itself, is enough for Bush to say he doesn't like portions of it. Sacher is clearly interested in something more reality-based than the word "abstain" in a vacuum, and Bush is really not interested in people, after all...
Posted by jenett @ 06/30/2001 10:50 AM CST
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