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<text id=91TT2722>
<title>
Dec. 09, 1991: American Notes:Health
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 33
American Notes
HEALTH
Condom Cornucopia
</hdr><body>
<p> When the program was first proposed last December, it set off
a storm of protest from parents and religious leaders, who feared
it would encourage sexual promiscuity. But New York City schools
chancellor Joseph Fernandez insisted the urgency of preventing
AIDS outweighed all other considerations. That argument
prevailed, and last week two city high schools began distributing
condoms, without parental consent, to any student who requested
them.
</p>
<p> Alerted again to the risks of heterosexually transmitted
AIDS by Magic Johnson's revelations, students lined the
hallways to get the handouts. By the end of next year condoms
will be available to 260,000 students at 120 schools. Chicago,
Miami and Los Angeles already have smaller, clinic-based
programs that make prophylactics available to high school
students; San Francisco and Philadelphia are planning similar
schemes.
</p>
</body></article>
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