Brazil puts science ahead of religion

While Congress shies away from a battle with Bush to provide $1 billion for religious theory to fight AIDS, Brazil builds a pharmaceutical factory in one of the harder hit countries of Africa so they can provide the necessary medicine locally. While the GOP continues their efforts to restrict choice in America, Brazil announces a plan to provide morning after pills for the poor, in addition to the existing program to distribute condoms for almost nothing.

It's an interesting sign of the times to see a developing nation be so much more progressive than the so-called world superpower. In no way am I knocking Brazil which is a great country with so many qualities, but in another time it would have been the US would have been out in front with combating serious issues like this. Our leaders kowtow to the religious right, fearing their wrath and leaders in Brazil decide to be leaders themselves, as it should be in a modern democracy.