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  • Public Health Group Calls for Troop Pullout, End to Abstinence-Only Ed

    11/10/2006 11:01:42 AM PST · by yoe · 18 replies · 624+ views
    CNSNEWS ^ | November 10, 2006 | Randy Hall
    The world's largest organization of public health professionals concluded its annual meeting in Boston Wednesday by calling for U.S. forces to leave Iraq and for an end to abstinence-only sex education. The American Public Health Association (APHA) also expressed its support for a ban on serving trans fats in restaurants and a treaty instituting global control of alcohol consumption. Holding its four-day 134th annual gathering, the APHA called "for the immediate initiation of the safe withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Iraq accompanied by the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops in areas of high risk for inter-ethnic conflict or civil...