"No Such Study"

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"No Such Study"

New York Times (12/17/90), P. A16
Rosoff, Jeannie I.

Abstract: The Alan Guttmacher Institute has conducted no study indicating that youngsters increased sexual activity when given access to condoms, writes Jeannie Rosoff, President of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, in a letter to the New York Times. In the Times report of Joseph Fernandez's plan to distribute condoms in New York City high schools (Dec. 6), Irene Impellizzeri of the Board of Education misrepresented the facts when she quoted a Guttmacher Institute report of such a study, writes Rosoff. Impellizzeri may have misunderstood a recent analysis by the Institute that sexual activity increased among teenage girls from 1982 to 1988 despite widespread fear of AIDS, Rosoff writes. The study showed the overall pregnancy rate did not increase commensurately, because of a greatete the lack of certainty. Women pay half the taxes and deserve a fair share of the research, says Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.). Predominantly male researchers have routinely excluded women because of pressure from the right against fertility and fetal-tissue research and because, researchers argue, female hormonal changes and possibilty of pregnancy complicate studies. Women activists say these arguments are absurd at worst and blatantly sexist at best. Breast cancer, osteoporosis, menopause, and chlamydia are areas that desperately need research. AIDS is also a growing concern--within 10 years, studies indicate, 80 percent of all cases may result from heterosexual transmission and women are 14 times more likely to contract HIV from men than vice-versa. Studies of AZT in female mice indicate the drug can cause vaginal cancer.

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