Words of Mahatma Gandhi on Contraception
http://die_meistersinger.tripod.com/gandhi3.html
"I
want to revert to the subject of birth control by contraceptives. It
is dinned into oneʼs ears that the gratification of the sex urge is
a solemn obligation like the obligation of discharging debts
lawfully incurred, and that not to do so would involve the penalty
of intellectual decay. This sex urge has been isolated from the
desire for progeny, and it is said by the protagonists of the use of
contraceptives that the conception is an accident to be prevented
except when the parties desire to have children. I venture to
suggest that this is a most dangerous doctrine to preach anywhere;
much more so in a country like India, where the middle-class male
population has become imbecile through abuse of the creative
function. If satisfaction of the sex urge is a duty, then unnatural
vice and several other ways of gratification would be commendable.
The reader should know that even persons of note have been known to
approve of what is commonly known as sexual perversion. He may be
shocked at the statement. But if it somehow or other gains the stamp
of respectability, it will be the rage amongst boys and girls to
satisfy their urge among the members of their own sex. For me, the
use of contraceptives is not far removed from the means to which
persons have hitherto resorted for the gratification of their sexual
desire with the results that very few know. I know what havoc secret
vice has played among schoolboys and schoolgirls. The introduction
of contraceptives under the name of science and the imprimatur of
known leaders of society has intensified the complication and made
the task of the reformers who work for purity of social life
wellnigh impossible for the moment. I betray no confidence when I
inform the reader, that there are unmarried girls of impressionable
age, studying in schools and colleges, who study birth control
literature and magazines with avidity, and even possess
contraceptives. It is impossible to confine their use to married
women. Marriage loses its sanctity when its purpose and highest use
is conceived to be the satisfaction of the animal passion without
contemplating the natural result of such satisfaction."
Argentine Catholic Bishops Blast National
Sex-Ed Program
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
BUENOS AIRES, June 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Argentina's
Episcopal Committee for Catholic Education has denounced the
nation's new national sexual education program for teaching that
gender is a social construct, promoting contraception and ignoring
abstinence, neglecting the ethical and moral dimensions of
sexuality, and circumventing parental authority.
Full article at:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08062002.html
Bush urges vouchers for Catholic schools
WASHINGTON (Apr. 25, 2008) —
President Bush sees two major
problems with inner-city education: Children trapped in
low-performing public schools can't afford to go anywhere else,
and religious schools are closing because they lack students.
Bush wants to address both problems by offering low-income
parents federal aid to send their children to religious and
other private schools he says provide academic hope.
At a
White House Summit on
Thursday called Inner-City Children and Faith-Based Schools, he
renewed his call for spending $300 million on "Pell Grants for
Kids," a voucher program fashioned after the popular federal
Pell subsidies available to college students.
Full article at:
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080425/NEWS01/804250355/-1/RSS07
Condom Battle of the First Ladies - Laura Bush vs Uganda's Janet
Museveni
Kenyan first lady said "the condom … is causing the spread of
AIDS in this country"
Editorial By John-Henry Westen
WASHINGTON, December 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In what came as a
shock to some, US First Lady Laura Bush promoted condom use "every time"
in the pages of the Washington Post on December 1st. Writing on World
AIDS Day Bush urged: "Practice safe sex," and advocated the "correct and
consistent use of condoms" which she said, "means not just occasionally,
but every time."
Of note, Mrs. Bush suggested her approach was following the example of
"our African counterparts". She wrote: "Let's take a cue from our
African counterparts and follow the ABC method of prevention:
Abstinence, Be Faithful, and the Correct and Consistent Use of Condoms."
The ABC method gained fame first and foremost in Uganda where the
advance of AIDS was stopped in its tracks with a focus on abstinence and
fidelity, with condoms as a very distant last resort - but more on that
later.
So, Mrs. Bush's exact African counterpart would be in this instance
Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni. And that is where this story
becomes really interesting.
Rather than taking a cue from her African counterpart as Mrs. Bush
suggests in her Washington Post piece, the US First Lady has, by
advocating condom use, taken the exact opposite stance to Mrs. Museveni.
In her message for World AIDS Day last year, the Ugandan First Lady also
spoke of condom use, but from a completely different perspective. "I
would not be caught advising you to take any shortcuts or compromise
your lives by using any device invented by man, such as condoms, in
order to facilitate any desire to go against God's clear plan for your
life," Mrs. Museveni told students at the Uganda Christian University,
Mukono. "God's plan for your life is that you should honour your body
because it is His temple."
Full article at:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/dec/07121301.html
Homosexodus! Students flee forced 'gay' agenda
California
parents start reacting to new 'education' requirements
December 4, 2007
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Parents in California have started reacting to the state's newly
mandated homosexual indoctrination program by pulling their children
out of classes, and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack
O'Connell is warning districts they'll lose money if that happens.
A spokeswoman for
a ministry called Considering Homeschooling said she already has
seen an overwhelming increase in requests for information about
homeschooling.
As a result, spokeswoman Denise Kanter told WND that her group is
sending out 5,000 DVD packages to churches around the state that
include basic "how-to" information to provide parents a direction to
turn when they choose to protect their children from the new school
agenda.
Full article at:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59033
Middle school cancels “gender-switch” day after parents
object
Sacramento, Nov 2, 2007 / 11:10 am (CNA).-
A Bay Area Middle School has canceled a scheduled cross-dressing or
“gender-switch” day after parents complained, according to an Oct. 30
Pacific Justice Institute news release. The Sacramento-based institute
is a legal organization that defends parental rights, religious freedom,
and other civil liberties.
Adams Middle School in Brentwood encouraged students to cross-dress –
boys wearing girls clothing, girls wearing boys’ clothing – on the last
day of “Spirit Week,” Friday, Nov. 2. Parents were given little notice
of the event, said the Pacific Justice Institute, and only found out
about it after flyers were posted at the school.
A parent of a seventh-grader met with the principal, Adam Clark, to
voice her concerns about the event, and was told that it would go ahead
as planned. Clark told the parent she could keep her son home if he did
not want to be part of the event. The parent contacted Pacific Justice
Institute, which told her she needed to enlist other parents to contact
the school with their concerns. The Institute itself prepared to
intervene, if necessary.
Full story at:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10869
Same-sex video is pulled in Evesham
The school board acted after parents complained
about "That's a Family."
By Troy Graham
Aug. 31, 2007
Inquirer Staff Writer
The Evesham school board last night voted 7-1 to
stop showing third graders a controversial
educational video that includes depictions of
families headed by same-sex couples.
The vote came after a committee of scholars and
educators, appointed by the board to review the
issue, recommended keeping the video in the
curriculum, but showing it to fourth graders,
instead of to third graders, as had been done.
But after a number of board members spoke against
the film, the board did away with the video, called
That's a Family, altogether.
The half-hour video shows children explaining
their various family structures, including those
with mixed-race couples and divorced, single and
adoptive parents.
Full article at:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20070831_District_gives_video_thumbs-down.html
“Comprehensive” Sex Education is Ineffective: Abstinence
Works, Major National Study Shows
By Elizabeth O’Brien
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A major report
on teen sex education, released by Dr. Stan Weed of the Institute for
Research and Evaluation in Salt Lake City, shows why abstinence is the most
successful method of preventing physical and emotional complications
resulting from pre-marital sexual activity. His research is based on the
results of many studies that have followed the education and behavior of
over 400,000 adolescents in 30 different states for 15 years (see
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007_docs/CompSexEd.pdf).
Full story at:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jun/07061304.html
Washington State School Choice Status Report
Full history at:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/education/schoolchoice/Washington.cfm
-
Public school choice:
Intradistrict and interdistrict/mandatory
-
State constitution: Blaine
amendment
-
Charter school law: No
- Publicly funded private school choice: No
-
Home-school law: High
regulation
New Hampshire Middle School Children Take Field Trip to
Planned Parenthood Abortuary?
By John Jalsevac
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, June 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) –
Approximately 20 Jr. High students were seen entering Manchester’s Planned
Parenthood building during school hours on a weekday, according to New
Hampshire Right to Life. According to witnesses the event, which occurred
last Wednesday, had all the appearance of being an official school field
trip.
“I understand that 20 or so Jr. High students from Park Side and South
Side Schools were escorted through a group of pro-life witnesses,” said NH
Right to Life President Darlene Pawlik. “They were inside half hour or
longer….there was one male chaperone with ‘Staff’ on his shirt and one or
two female adults.”
The students visited the Planned Parenthood on Penacook St., which is an
active abortion clinic.
Full story at:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jun/07061109.html
From Positive Christian Agenda ...
Washington State Comprehensive Sex Ed
June 2007
Explanation of opposition to now passed legislative bill
ESSB 5297
mandating "medically and scientifically accurate sexual health education in
schools" by Dr. Sharon
Quick, Washington State Coordinator, American Academy of Medical Ethics.
More ...
Could This Happen In Washington State?
Bill Funds 20 New Elementary School Health Clinics Offering
Condoms and Birth Control for Students
Would also provide abortion referrals without parental notification
or consent
By Peter J. Smith
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, May 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Condoms and
contraception for elementary students are among the services of 20 new
school proposed health clinics in a bill under consideration by Illinois’
House of Representatives.
SB 715 passed 32-22 by the state Senate faces a second reading in the House,
which if approved would go to the governor for signing.
While the state’s Administrative Code specifically allows the current 48
school-based clinics in Illinois to offer "family planning" by "prescribing,
dispensing, or referring for birth control," the Illinois Family Institute
reports SB 715 intends to introduce the programs to elementary school
students, who would also receive condoms and birth control along with band
aids, ice, and routine medicinal care.
Under SB 715, $5 million would be used to create 20 new school health
centers, which could then dispense birth control and condoms to students,
and then provide abortion referrals without parental notification or
consent.
Full article at:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07052307.html
Homosexuality In Your Child's School
A free four megabyte
download from the Family Research Council.
Dozens of students at three
Sacramento, California, area public
schools were suspended when they
took a stand against a
pro-homosexual event -- the "Day of
Silence," which was observed
nationwide late last month.
In the Sacramento area, an estimated
3,000 to 4,000 students chose to
stay home instead of being
confronted with the pro-homosexual
message on the Day of Silence. But
nearly 50 students who did attend
school that day wore clothing and
distributed literature highlighting
the dangers of homosexuality. Some
of these students were sent home,
some were suspended, and others were
given "Saturday school."Read
more:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/05/calif_students_pay_price_for_r.php
Study: 83% Of Parents Say Its Important For Their Child To
Save Sex Till Marriage
WASHINGTON, DC, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Zogby poll released
today shows that parents are far more likely to favour abstinence education
over so-called 'comprehensive' sex education which focuses on proper use of
contraceptives.
See the Zogby poll results online here. Notice how support for
comprehensive sex ed is decreases from beginning to end of questionnaire:
http://www.abstinenceassociation.org/docs/zogby_questionnaire_050207.pdf
Evergreen opens way for
prayer
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
BY HOWARD BUCK Columbain staff writer
Evergreen Public Schools will allow a small group
of students to resume a prayer circle inside the Heritage High School
commons before class each morning.
The action comes after delicate talks and threat of legal action.
The circle might begin meeting as early as today in a quiet area of the
school's main corridor, prior to the 7:20 a.m. opening bell.
District officials and several students in the group reached a truce of
sorts Friday.
Evergreen agreed to purge all record of student suspensions stemming from
a confrontation on March 2. The district also will allow group prayer so
long as it stays low-key and doesn't block traffic in the busy main corridor
of the 2,400-student school.
"They've been given specific guidelines and they've agreed to abide by
those," said Carol Fenstermacher, district spokeswoman.
Full story at:
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/05012007news134208.cfm
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Students in prayer flap have records
cleaned
Friday, April 27, 2007
BY HOWARD BUCK Columbain staff writer
Eleven Heritage High School students briefly
suspended in March for defying orders to stop praying in the school commons
will have their discipline records wiped clean. Today, five of them and a
Vancouver attorney will press to resume their daily, before-school group
prayer in an area known as "The Den." Evergreen Public Schools officials
will meet with the five students and local attorney Darren C. Walker at 3
p.m., hoping to reach a compromise. Included will be Heritage High
Principal Ann Sosky, Evergreen district Assistant Superintendent Bill
Bentley and Jerry Piland, who oversees student discipline grievances for the
district. "We're going to sit down and develop some guidelines for the
future so that everyone's happy," Piland said. "It's a question of how and
when this can be done."
Full story at:
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/04272007news132609.cfm
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“Day of
Silence” Articulates Condemnation of Biblical Values
4/17/2007
By Martha Kleder
This Wednesday, April 18, homosexual students and
their supporters will refuse to participate in class, remaining silent in
protest over the treatment of "sexual minorities." Along with its disruptive
nature in the classroom, the day also sends clear messages to Christian
students that Biblical views of human sexuality are "homophobic," "hateful"
and "discriminatory."
Matt Barber, Concerned Women for America's (CWA)
Policy Director for Cultural Issues says the "Day of Silence" is the
creation of homosexual activist groups hoping to instill a victim mentality
among today's youth.
Full story at:
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/12811/CFI/family/index.htm
La Center High
School to offer sex-ed curriculum online
Sunday, April 01, 2007
ISOLDE RAFTERY Columbian staff writer
For years, La Center High
School students have heard one thing about sex: Don't do it.
"Not that we don't mention that there is such a
thing as birth control," said Dave Holmes, the high school principal. "But
there are a million ways to teach anything, and we are a very conservative
community and have a conservative board."
But times are changing in La Center, a quiet town
off the interstate best known for its row of cardrooms. When the school
board started asking students and teachers about their views and wants, they
got an earful from the high school's leadership class.
Among the requests -- which included getting a
money management class and pushing the Washington state history course
online -- was the suggestion for more comprehensive sexual health education.
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School
prayer incident leads to suspensions, recriminations
Friday, March 02, 2007
By HOWARD BUCK, Columbian Staff Writer
A dust-up over group prayers in
the Heritage High School commons before the start of school triggered the
suspension of a dozen students on Friday.
It also quickly threatened to fan up into a broader skirmish in the culture
war.
By day’s end, “pagans,” “Satanists” and religious freedom were words in
play, and a Florida-based group affiliated with Jerry Falwell had announced
it would defend the students.
A top Evergreen Public Schools administrator downplayed the incident but
confirmed that 12 pupils were disciplined after they ignored a faculty order
to stop meeting for prayer in the commons area at the 2,200-student high
school near Orchards, one of Clark County’s largest schools.
A praying student ordered to detention on Friday said two group co-leaders
received 10-day suspensions, while eight others were given three-day
suspensions. They had been warned on Thursday not to meet again in the
commons, she said.
Bill Bentley, an Evergreen assistant superintendent who oversees Heritage,
said pupils were warned days ago that their informal morning prayer sessions
were blocking traffic in the crowded commons. Other students complained to
school faculty about the prayers, he said.
Heritage administrators offered
use of a classroom to the group, per written district policy that allows
religious or other student clubs to use school facilities during non-school
hours, with limited supervision.
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12 students suspended for
praying at school
It is absolutely outrageous
that the school allowed one Satanist student to exercise a heckler’s veto over
the other students’ speech
Doug Huntington
Monday 5 March 2007, by
The Senior Editor
A dozen students attending Heritage High School in
Vancouver, Wash., located on the state’s southern border, were suspended
on Friday for praying at school.
Ten in the group were suspended
for ten days while two received one-day, in-school suspensions for
holding a morning prayer meeting. The group has now sought out legal
assistance.
“This situation underscores the
ignorance of school officials regarding the constitutional rights of
students," said Liberty Counsel President Anita L. Staver in a
statement. Liberty Counsel is a nonprofit litigation, education and
policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom.
According to the group’s
statement, the affected students had met together a few weeks ago to
initiate a school prayer club. They were refused by the school’s vice
principal, Alex Otoupal, who
explained that they could not meet in a private room.
Full story at:
http://www.alainsnewsletter.com/s/spip.php?article326&var_recherche=Alex%20Otoupal
Liberty Counsel
NEWS RELEASE
http://www.lc.org/pressrelease/2007/nr030207.htm
Contact:
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT - 800-671-1776
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 2, 2007
Twelve Students Receive 10-Day Suspension for Praying Before School
Vancouver, WA - Today twelve high school students at Heritage High School
were suspended for ten days for gathering to pray before school. Liberty
Counsel is providing legal assistance to the students who were suspended.
A few
weeks ago, the students tried to start a prayer club, but the school's vice
principal, Alex Otoupal, would not let them meet in a private room. The
students gathered in the cafeteria before school to pray, but a Satanist
student went to the school office and complained. As a result, Vice
Principal Otoupal told the Christian students they could not pray in the
cafeteria but would have to go outside. After the students insisted on
praying in the cafeteria because of inclement weather, Otoupal suspended
them for ten days.
Anita L.
Staver, President of Liberty Counsel, commented: "It is absolutely
outrageous that the school allowed one Satanist student to exercise a
heckler's veto over the other students' speech. This situation underscores
the ignorance of school officials regarding the constitutional rights of
students."
Staver
concluded: "Most of the students who were suspended are immigrants from
Russia. We must show them that America is still the land of the free. School
officials must immediately reverse the suspensions."
School Board, Conservatives Clash Over
Sex-Ed Curriculum
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
February 26, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - Maryland's
education board is expected to decide by Tuesday on whether to allow lessons
this spring on "respect for differences in human sexuality." The proposal is
being criticized by social conservative groups who oppose presenting
homosexuality as "normal" behavior.
Approved by a unanimous vote by the Montgomery County Board of Education in
January, the revised curriculum consists of "lessons on respect for
differences in human sexuality and a lesson on condom use for Grade 10
students that includes a demonstration video."
The human sexuality curriculum is scheduled for field testing this spring,
but Citizens for Responsible Curriculum (CRC) and Parents and Friends of
Ex-gays and Gays (PFOX) have filed an appeal to the education board in a bid
to stop the lessons from entering the classroom.
In 2005, CRC and PFOX were successful is striking down a similar attempt by
Montgomery County Public Schools.
"We're concerned about the inaccuracy of the information, we're concerned
about the lack of factual information, we're concerned about the lack of
viewpoint neutrality, the bias, [and] the introduction of anal and oral sex
without the proper or correct information on the efficacy of condoms being
used for those two sex acts," CRC spokeswoman Michelle Turner told
Cybercast News Service.
Full story at:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200702/CUL20070226a.html
Teen sex leads to depression, not
vice versa
Janice Shaw Crouse
ReligionAndSpirituality.com
January 31, 2007
Researchers have long recognized that
risky behavior and depression are linked for adolescents;
prevailing theories assumed that depressed teens turned to drugs
and sex for self-medication. Now there is solid evidence that
teen girls who experiment with risky behaviors (i.e., sex and
drugs) are more vulnerable to depression and that teen boys who
engage in binge drinking and heavy marijuana use are prone to
depression.
In an article published in the American Journal of
Preventive Medicine, five authors from different departments
(Psychology, Pediatrics, Maternal and Child Health, Research and
Evaluation and Internal Medicine) at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) explored whether
"gender-specific patterns of substance use and sexual behavior
precede and predict depression or vice versa." The data for the
study came from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent
Health — well known for the large sample size and longitudinal
design that allows temporal ordering among a nationally
representative sample of U.S. adolescents. Further, aspects of
the findings were replicated in five other studies. The UNC-CH
study, though, moved beyond previous ones by considering typical
patterns found during adolescence and by examining gender
differences.
The UNC-CH scholars found conclusively that sex and drug
behavior predicted an increased likelihood of depression, but
depression did not predict behavior. Among girls, both
experimental and high-risk behaviors predicted depression. Among
boys, only high-risk behavior increased the odds of later
depression.
The message is clear: Teens engaging in risky behavior are
at risk for depression. No wonder teen depression is so
widespread when 47 percent of high school students reported in
2003 (the number has dropped since then) that during the past
month they had had intercourse, 45 percent reporting drinking
alcohol and 22 percent reported that they had used marijuana.
Almost one-third of the students said that their feelings of
sadness and hopelessness had kept them from doing normal
activities over the past year.
Sex and consequences
Janice Shaw Crouse
ReligionAndSpirituality.com
January 10, 2007
On college campuses, counselors are seeing double
the number of depression cases and triple the number of suicidal
students. The American Psychological Association reported in 2003 that
counselors on U.S. college campuses were seeing significant increases of
these and other "severe psychological problems." Why are the nation's
brightest young adults flooding the student health centers to
overflowing? What has changed since the late 1980s to produce such
emotional and psychological devastation among the nation's college
students?
School Officials To
Investigate Sex Party Reports
UPDATED: 8:24 am EST
November 17, 2006
WESTMINSTER, Md.
-- A high school principal in rural northern Carroll County said she
would investigate reports of sex parties involving students and possibly
recent graduates. Kim Dolch, principal of North Carroll High School, said
Wednesday that the school would look into the matter. Det. Sgt. Charles
Moore with the state police barracks in Westminster said Thursday that
police were not involved in any investigation.
Health and school officials said this week that
middle and high school students in Carroll County were participating in sex
games that sometimes involved up to 30 people. Cindy Marucci-Bosley,
manager of the Carroll County Family Planning Clinic, said she got wind of
the parties from girls who requested emergency contraception. Demand for
such contraceptives has skyrocketed this year, particularly among girls from
the northern part of the county, she said. "There are days when seven
or so teens come for emergency contraception, and all come from the same
high school or middle school," Marucci-Bosley said. "There's a huge number
of 16- and 17-year-olds who say they've had 30 or 40 partners."
Study Shows Abortion Takes Toll on
Adolescent Mental Health
“Scientific evidence is now strong and compelling” says researcher
By Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON, August 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –
Adolescent women experience far graver risks of mental and emotional health
problems from abortion than they do by carrying their “unintended pregnancies”
to term according to a new US study. The study, published in the Journal of
Youth and Adolescents, proves without a doubt that abortion - not the
“unintended pregnancy” - causes severe mental health problems in young women.
The research conducted by Dr. Priscilla Coleman, a
research psychologist at Bowling Green State University, evaluated adolescent
women with "unintended pregnancies" and discovered in her findings that those
adolescents who aborted their unintended pregnancies were fives times more
likely to seek help for psychological and emotional problems afterwards than
those adolescent women who carried their pregnancies to term. Dr. Coleman also
found that adolescents who had abortions were subsequently more than three times
more likely to experience trouble sleeping, and nine times more likely to report
marijuana use after their abortions.
In the federally funded study, adolescents participated
in two series of interviews in 1995 and 1996. Nearly 76 percent of girls who had
abortions and 80 percent of girls who gave birth fell between the ages of 15 and
19 during the survey; the remainder being 14 and younger.
In her report, Dr. Coleman stated, "When women feel
forced into abortion by others or by life circumstances, negative post-abortion
outcomes become more common." She added, "Adolescents are generally much less
prepared to assume the responsibility of parenthood and are logically the
recipients of pressure to abort."
"The scientific evidence is now strong and compelling,"
Coleman concluded. "Abortion poses more risks to women than giving birth."
The uniqueness of the Dr. Coleman’s study, however,
hinges on her exclusive evaluation of adolescent women with “unintended
pregnancies”. Abortion advocates have dismissed previous studies on the
detrimental effects of abortion on women’s health, claiming instead that those
studies could not prove that the serious psychological harm was done by the
unintended pregnancy rather than the subsequent abortion.
Dr. Richard Reardon, a researcher with the Elliot
Institute, has also contributed to more than a dozen studies examining
psychological outcomes after abortion, affirmed the importance of the
“wantedness” of pregnancies in Dr. Coleman's distinctive study.
"Over the last six years, numerous studies have
conclusively linked higher rates of mental illness and behavioral problems
associated with abortion compared to childbirth." said Reardon. "But abortion
advocates have generally dismissed these findings, insisting that while women
who abort may fare worse than women who give birth to planned children, they may
fare better than the important subgroup of women who carry unintended
pregnancies to term. Coleman's study addresses this argument and shows that the
facts don't support abortion advocates' speculations."
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which
tracks US abortion statistics, every year nearly a quarter of all abortions are
performed on girls less than 20 years old.
The study serves to reinforce the warnings of pro-life
advocates about the psychological toll abortion is taking on women worldwide.
In a press release, Family Life International spokesman
Brendan Malone warned, “If we don't take urgent action on this issue then we
will have to deal with some very serious and costly social and psychological
health problems in the coming years.”
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UK Schools Handing Out Morning-After
Pill to Students of All Ages
By Terry Vanderheyden
NORWICH, GREAT YARMOUTH, UK, August 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– UK schoolgirls are being handed the morning-after pill in an effort to
reduce teen pregnancy rates in a region with one of the highest in Western
Europe.
According to a Norwich Evening News report, two schools in Norwich and five
in Great Yarmouth have begun distribution of the abortifacients to girls
below the age of consent, which is 16 years of age in Great Britain.
The schools' on-site permanent sexual health clinics, which employ so-called
family planning workers, are possible because of tax funding through the
Norwich Primary Care Trust and are part of a 10-year plan to reduce teen
pregnancy rates.
Norfolk teenage pregnancy strategy unit Lead Officer Becky Oliver said the
program is available to girls as young as 11. “This confidential service is
available to young people in all years at the participating schools and has
the full support of the schools management and governing bodies.”
New rules introduced in April this year allow girls as young as 12 to be
given the morning-after pill over the counter in pharmacies across the
country without the knowledge of their parents. (See coverage:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06041008.html)
A 2002 study by University of Nottingham professor Dr. David Paton, a
leading expert on teenage fertility, suggested that candid sex education and
the availability of the morning after pill actually increase promiscuous
sex. The study confirmed the findings of studies conducted in 1999 and 2000
which found that use of family planning information did not lead to a
decrease in unwanted pregnancies, and that found that young people who were
prescribed the morning-after pill were much more likely to have abortions.
(See coverage:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/mar/02031803.html)
A survey conducted in the 2005 revealed that teenage pregnancy rates are
highest in areas that have been most aggressive in promoting sex education.
The report revealed that explicit sex education and providing condoms to
young girls simply encourages them to become sexually active.
Official figures reveal that teenage pregnancies rose in Britain by an
annual rate of 800 from 38,439 in 2001 to 39,286 in 2002, despite the £15
million being spent to counter the situation. The pregnancies led to 17,682
of the children being aborted in 2001.
The number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases has also risen by an
alarming 62 percent between 1997's 25,143 cases and 2002's 40,821 cases.
(See coverage:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/mar/04031505.html)
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What's behind today's epidemic
of teacher-student sex?
.... Get ready for a shock. According
to a major 2004 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education – the
most in-depth investigation to date – nearly 10 percent of U.S. public
school students have been targeted with unwanted sexual attention by school
employees. Titled "Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing
Literature," the report says the mistreatment of students ranges from sexual
comments to rape. In fact, says the study's author Charol Shakeshaft,
professor of educational administration at Hofstra University in Hempstead,
N.Y., the scope of the school-sex problem appears to far exceed the
clergy-abuse scandal that has recently rocked the Roman Catholic Church.
Full story at:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49389
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High School Gay Group’s Sexual-Orientation
Questionnaire Stirs Parent Backlash
By Terry Vanderheyden
PORT WASHINGTON, Wisconsin, May 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– A high school student club for homosexuals has raised the ire of parents
through a “Heterosexual Questionnaire” that posed such questions as, “If you
have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you
wouldn’t prefer it?”
Hundreds of students were asked to write answers to
the highly personal questions in what the group claims was part of a
national homosexual awareness campaign dubbed the Day of Silence. Two
teachers approved distribution of the survey, according to a Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel report.
One parent said the two teachers – social studies
teacher Sarah Olson and communications teacher Julie Grudzinski – who
allowed the homosexual group to present their surveys as part of classroom
discussion should be disciplined. “If somebody doesn’t call them on it, it
will continue,” said Lisa Krier.
School board president Patty Ruth and Principal
Duane Woelfel both criticized the survey as inappropriate for classroom
discussion but had not reached a decision on how or if the pair would be
disciplined.
See a copy of the survey:
http://www2.jsonline.com/multimedia/graphic.asp?graphic=http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/may06/quiz16g.gif
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Savvy
Students Outsmart Web Filtering - Wy'east pupil accessed porn sites at school
Friday, March 3, 2006
By HOWARD BUCK, Columbian staff writer
Monday afternoon, just like any other day,
11-year-old Jason Lee of Vancouver telephoned his mother, Molly Lee, at her
office when he arrived home from school. He's good about checking in, she
said.
But Molly wasn't happy to hear about what he'd seen
online in computer class at Wy'east Middle School that day. Even though he
quickly added: "You'd be proud of me, I put all my porn in the recycle bin."
The next day, in an empty computer lab at the
school, he showed her how easily he'd found the site with a quick Internet
search. She was astonished.
"He was on that thing in 30 seconds," Molly Lee
said. "I didn't believe it. I was disgusted. Some of the Web sites wouldn't
open, but you just go down (a search engine list) and click on one that
does, then you can go anywhere. The pictures are worse than you can imagine.
Full story at:
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/03032006news9697.cfm
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Camas Library Proquest, or buy from
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Dobson Urges Parents to "Rise Up" Against
Homosexualization of Children in Schools
Cites California Senate bill mandating homosexualization of all school curricula
by Hilary White
SACRAMENTO, April 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr.
James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family said in his weekly radio broadcast
that the California legislature is devoted to a “far, far leftist” ideology.
On April 17, Dobson stated, “Some of the bills that come out of (the
California) legislature are flat-out off the wall.”
The legislature, Dobson said, is controlled “by
those who represent a far leftist philosophy, and the conservatives, mostly
Republicans, don’t have the votes to stop it.”
The most recent example he noted was characteristic
of the movement to the “extreme” left was the State Senate Judiciary
Committee’s approval of a bill mandating the adoption of the homosexual
lobby’s doctrines for young children in school curricula.
The bill requires that California public schools
teach students in all grades about the “contributions” that homosexuals,
bisexuals and transsexuals have made to society. Further the bill requires
that schools buy textbooks that highlight these positive contributions. The
bill is currently at the committee stage.
In every subject throughout the day, the bill
mandates that the homosexual subjects be brought up. Children as young as
six and seven will be told that homosexuality, and other alternative sexual
“lifestyles” are not only acceptable, but a genuine social demographic with
a definable set of heroes.
This move reflects the efforts made by the
homosexual movement to identify their sexual habits and temptations as those
of another unjustly oppressed minority group and their movement as a
legitimate part of the historic civil rights movement. Indeed, the term
“sexual minorities” can be found increasingly in official documentation in
government at all levels for all curricula.
Dobson states, “In every subject, throughout the
day, (the teachers) are going to have to come around to that subject and
talk about (the homosexual lifestyle) in positive terms…There are all kinds
of moral implications…and yet, we’ve got to tell five year-olds, and six
year-olds and seven year-olds that this is a wonderful, positive thing
that’s had a great impact on the culture.”
“If it moves on through the Assembly and the
Senate, it is going to happen in every public school and in every subject,
throughout the State of California. If the parents of children in California
put up with that, then they’re farther gone than I think they are.”
The reason the laws of California are moving so far
to the left, said Dobson, was that parents are not objecting. “Parents are
not rising up to stop it. The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
should be besieged with by complaints and opposition to this ridiculous idea
and so should every member of the state legislature.”
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Gay alliance can't be
denied, B.G. warned
Sunday, January 15, 2006
By MARGARET ELLIS Columbian staff writer
BATTLE GROUND -- If students want one, there's nothing
the Battle Ground School Board can do to keep a Gay-Straight Alliance club out
of Battle Ground High School.
In an hourlong workshop Jan. 10, Attorney Bill Coats
told the board it couldn't refuse a club based on content the board doesn't
like.
"If you start treating groups differently based on what
they say, you run afoul of the First Amendment," Coats said.
The issue came up before winter break when some
students proposed the Gay-Straight Alliance.
The Associated Student Body group is taking input from
students and will vote on the club Tuesday. The board said it would wait for
that vote before discussing the issue further.
Board member Fred Striker said he feels the board is in
a tough spot over the issue. The board can't refuse the club, but "probably
close to the majority of the community wouldn't agree" with allowing the club,
he said.
Full story at:
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/01152006news109068.cfm
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