| A symptomless and emotional infection
College women share their experiences of being diagnosed with an STI Caitlin Scott The Daily Evergreen At 18 years old, Kayla is preparing to fight cervical cancer. �I�m shocked and surprised because it feels like this is not supposed to happen to me � I don�t deserve it,� the WSU freshman said. After a phone call from the health department telling her she had potentially been exposed to Chlamydia, Kayla went to get tested. Her results showed she was carrying the human papilloma virus, and it had progressed into cervical cancer. �I was ashamed and devastated,� she said. HPV is a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different strands. More than 30 of these strands are sexually transmitted and can infect the genital area of men and women.
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Keith Olbermann Says Pro-Life Women's Advocate "Worst Person in the ...
Take the African AIDS epidemic. As CWA reported a few years back, Dr. Margaret Angola of Kenya testified at two United Nations conferences that, ��family planners� have put so many condoms into Kenya that the children use them as balloons and play with them in the streets.� Tragically, we all know how �comprehensive sex education� has worked-out in Africa. Unfortunately, it�s no better right here at home. Despite a culture that relentlessly extols the phantom virtues of so-called �safe sex� and practically throws condoms at children by the handful, STD and teen pregnancy rates remain high. Like a broken record, liberal educators and cultural elites incessantly regurgitate, �always have safe sex,� while the only thing impressionable, hormone charged kids hear is, �have sex!� Of course, �safe sex� is code for �use a condom,� and everyone knows that condoms are anything but reliable.
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