Posted on 05/01/2003 10:42:21 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The House passed a bill yesterday that promotes abstinence in fighting AIDS worldwide and prevents religious groups from being forced to distribute condoms, handing a major victory to conservatives.
The bill, which passed by a vote of 375-41, takes up an initiative pushed by President Bush in his State of the Union Address in January to spend $15 billion over the next five years on AIDS prevention, mostly in Africa and the Caribbean.
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