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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.motss,net.med
Subject: Re: nonoxynol-9
Message-ID: <554@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 12:25:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 12:25:23 1985
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References: <158@sdcarl.UUCP> <150@bbnccv.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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In article <150@bbnccv.UUCP> sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
>
>On a more serious note, is anyone else as appalled as I am about the
>recent promotion of nonoxynol-9-containing lubricants/spermicides as
>actually PREVENTING AIDS?  Even a supposedly well-meaning person like
>Bruce Voeller, a fairly well-known gay activist, is promoting this stuff
>through an organization known as the "Mariposa Foundation."
>
>... and it seems to me that the Mariposa
>Foundation and other promoters of nonoxynol-9 should be on hand to sign
>the death certificates if any should contract AIDS.

It seems to me that they are opening themselves up for a good lawsuit
(and maybe ?criminal charges?? - maybe there's lawyer on the net who can
tell us).
-- 


Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell, San Francisco, California
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