Miss America: Exchange Needles

World peace? Kid's stuff. The new Miss America is talking needle exchange. In a Capitol Hill news conference, Katie Shindle changed her mind from earlier statements and pleaded with politicos, religious leaders, and activists to "please accept the facts of this [AIDS] epidemic" and embrace needle-exchange programs as a way to prevent the spread of the deadly virus among drug addicts. She also backs distributing condoms to teens.

World peace? Kid's stuff. The new Miss America is talking needle exchange. In a Capitol Hill news conference, Katie Shindle changed her mind from earlier statements and pleaded with politicos, religious leaders, and activists to "please accept the facts of this [AIDS] epidemic" and embrace needle-exchange programs as a way to prevent the spread of the deadly virus among drug addicts. She also backs distributing condoms to teens.