James P. Greenwood: “AIDS is clearly the worst epidemic in modern history. It is a tragedy, and it has struck down so many millions of people…”

“AIDS is clearly the worst epidemic in modern history. It is a tragedy, and it has struck down so many millions of people around the world. But of all of its victims, certainly the children, the newborns, are the most innocent and the ones who tug most heavily on our hearts. Four million women become pregnant in this country every year and 7,000 of those 4 million women are HIV positive. Several hundred of the babies that they bear will be born HIV positive. Of those little children, fully half of them will die before they reach the age of 3; and by the age of 5, 90 percent of them have perished. So obviously anything that can be done to rescue these children from that horrible fate needs to be done.”