Controversy: The Bush Administration

The Bush Administration was the administration that confronted this issue first and brought it into a big controversy. In its time the Bush Administration got to decide whether a vaccine should be required to attend a public school. Although this decision was not binding many states relied on it. One of the main problems people had with the administration was that it seemed to be religiously based. One can then infer that the Bush Administration is opposed to premarital sex and anything that would promote that. At the time of this article government policy already required one third of HIV prevention spending to go to abstinence until marriage programs. Many people wondered if this was based more on religious values rather than actual science. At times the government and the people within seem to take things to the extreme. One quote from the
Unruh states “Premarital sex is dangerous, even deadly” this quote seems to show where the line of government and religion should be drawn. The quote uses fear and extreme language to make a point, something that should not be done in politics. In another instance federal health officials replaced pages from a national cancer institute website with information that led people to believe, without evidence, that there might be a positive correlation between abortion and breast cancer. In these two instances people feel manipulated and lied to by the government.
Although language that produces fear can be effective, it is also something that cannot be done in good conscience. In examining this, I think that it is important to again think about politics’ place in science. Politics should not bring about fear when