Word: condom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Angry parents, politicians and clergy gathered on the steps of New York's city hall last week amid placards that demanded STOP FERNANDEZ FROM TEACHING OUR KIDS GAY SEX and DUMP KING CONDOM FERNANDEZ. What schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez is doing, warned Monsignor John Woolsey of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese, amounts to a "ratification of sexual promiscuity." Said outraged parent John Murnane: "Fernandez is insulting our children by telling them they cannot be educated as to what is right...
...controversy over Norplant highlights a general dissatisfaction with the state of contraception research in the U.S. Numerous other methods are being studied around the world, including a hormone-releasing IUD, a hormonal badge that is taped to the arm and releases a contraceptive through the skin, a female condom and a hormone-emitting vaginal ring, which a woman can insert and remove at will. The French abortion pill, RU-486, is being actively considered for approval in several other European countries but has not been approved in the U.S. Thanks in part to political skittishness about funding contraception...
...window. "Hello, and how are you?" he says to one woman in a sheer blouse. He asks her for her first name, jots it down on his clipboard and hands her a number of alcohol packs so she can disinfect her skin before she shoots up, along with some condoms. "Be careful and make sure you use them, for everything," he warns. Condoms are the most popular giveaway, and many claim they always use them. Says Karen, 28, a spunky black woman with cropped hair, body-hugging white shorts and a loose-fitting top: "I got a bag full...
...have two goals. We want...to try and curb the spread of AIDS, and we also want increasing awareness by the public of AIDS and how to cut down on your risk," Ryan said. "Now, every time you go to the bathroom, you will see a condom machine...
Walsh, a lawyer, said that foremost among his grievances is the fact that there is no provision for lawsuits that are the result of faulty condoms. "If the condom breaks, does the customer sue that establishment where he bought the prophylactic?" Walsh questioned. "Furthermore, what the heck is an affordable condom...