SUBSIDIZING SEX
Title: SUBSIDIZING SEX , Newsweek (Atlantic Edition), 01637053, 09/21/98, Vol. 132, Issue 12
Section: PERISCOPE
POLAND
WOMEN ARE FUMING ABOUT sex bias in Poland’s Solidarity-led government. Last week, after authorities approved the hugely popular impotence drug Viagra for the Polish market, Health Minister Kazimierz Kapera suggested that the little blue pills be subsidized to “boost births in our homeland.'’ The government cut subsidies for contraception this year, after expressing concern about a 30 percent drop in Polish birth rates since 1989. “Access to contraception is generally considered a major condition to improving women’s health,'’ says the Federation for Women and Family Planning. “Meanwhile, it is hard to evaluate the impact of Viagra on men’s health.'’ The group also angrily declared that “the current government cares more about the pleasure of men than health care for women.'’
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Source: Newsweek (Atlantic Edition), 09/21/98, Vol. 132 Issue 12, p8, 1p
