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...proposal to make condoms freely available in the city's 120 public high schools as part of the battle against AIDS. If the plan is approved, New York City's will become the first school system in the nation to provide condoms on an unrestricted basis -- without fees, parental consent or counseling requirements. Fernandez's own family is divided over the issue. "My wife doesn't agree with me," he says...
...biggest battlefront, but the war over condom distribution in schools is spreading across the country. One high school in Cambridge, Mass., three in Chicago, three in Los Angeles and one in Miami already dispense the devices to students through in-school health clinics, if parents give their consent. Sharon Pratt Dixon, the newly inaugurated mayor of Washington, backed school-based condom programs during her election campaign, provided students receive instruction in human reproduction and safe-sex practices...
...just one vote. In prosperous Marin County, Calif., Tamalpais High School abandoned a plan for condom distribution after a coalition of pro-life supporters and parents filed suit to stop it. Los Angeles' pilot reproductive-health project overcame vigorous opposition only when the city agreed to a parental-consent feature; about 75% of parents at the three participating schools have acceded...
Supporters of the Fernandez plan argue that although condoms are available in drugstores, many teenagers do not use them properly or consistently. That makes it necessary for schools to step in to safeguard the public's health and that of their charges. Parental consent, boosters say, is desirable but * unrealistic. "I don't know anyone whose children consulted with them before they had sex," says Caesar Previdi, principal of Manhattan's Martin Luther King Jr. High School. At Jordan High School in the Watts section of Los Angeles, teens are trained to counsel one another on sexual issues, precisely because...
...body, a definition covering most surgical and dental activities. These operations carry the greatest risk of exposure to contaminated blood. The proposals call for such workers to be tested for HIV infection and, if they prove positive, to refrain from performing invasive procedures unless they have the informed consent of the patient or are faced with an emergency. The new policy would be voluntary, but medical institutions, already skittish about potential | lawsuits, could be expected to pressure their staffs to submit to testing and dismiss those who turn up positive...