Warning: genital warts!

Dubya wants condom packages to feature a warning about genital warts (HPV), and how they may not protect you from them. This is, in fact, a thinly veiled attempt by pro-abstinence groups to scare people off from having sex. From the article:

"I want to be polite. But it appalls me when I see scientific and medical studies being manipulated for a different agenda," said Tom Broker. He's a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and president of the International Papillomavirus Society, a coalition of experts who study HPV.

The focus, Broker said, should be on the fact that condoms have been shown to reduce the risk of cervical cancer, which is caused by HPV and which can be detected and treated if women get regular PAP smears. (The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a recent report to Congress that included the same conclusion.)

*grr* It's hard enough getting kids to use condoms at all without throwing this kind of partisan quasi-science into the mix.