Kerry Healey Quotes
Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.
Healey, Kerry. Quoted in "Kerry Healey on Abortion." OnTheIssues, OnTheIssues.org.
Kenyans were dying in droves from AIDS and the abstinence programs had not stemmed the spread of AIDS.
This quotation is noteworthy as it illustrates political hypocrisy and very loose standards of accuracy. Vitter was a supporter and advocate for the idea of reducing teen age pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. However, this was an idea of religious advocates and not one recommended by public health scientists in the same way. To Vitter and the religious right, Abstinence Education, was to be a complete substitute for all other forms of sex education. They opposed teaching about birth control and safe sex procedures at all. The public health scientists generally argued that these were necessary, and that Abstinence Education would also be useful if it worked. But the early data showed that Abstinence Education did not work very well and was certainly no substitute for the other modalities of sex education. For Vitter, his moralistic advocacy of sexual fidelity, was particularly hypocritical as a few months after this quotation, Vitter was found to be frequenting prostitutes—See {625898}.
Kerry Murphy Healey is the inaugural president of the Milken Institute’s Center for Advancing the American Dream in Washington, DC. The mission of the Center is to expand access to the American Dream and tell the story of America through the eyes of those who came seeking opportunity, freedom and a better life for themselves and their families. The Center will include a visitor center on Pennsylvania Avenue, on-line educational resources, a conference center and American Dream research fellows. The visitor center is scheduled to open to the public in the Summer of 2023 in the restored historic Riggs Bank buildings across from the US Treasury and the White House. Dr. Healey was previously the president of Babson College for six years. She was the 70th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 under Governor Mitt Romney. She served as a special advisor on the Romney for President Campaign.
