Even if AIDS or HIV infections are not considered, the United States leads all other nations in the rate of sexually transmissible diseases, according to health-care experts representing the Institute of Medicine, affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences.
In 1996 sexually transmissible diseases accounted for five of the 10 diseases most commonly reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although most of these diseases can be cured, without treatment they can lead to birth defects, infertility, cancer and other major health problems.
In addition to the health and social costs, these diseases cost taxpayers $10 billion annually in direct costs such as Medicaid payments and indirect costs from higher health premiums. Such are the staggering costs to individuals and society for disobedience to God's Commandments, including His laws forbidding sexual activity outside of marriage. (News source: The New York Times .)
