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A few months back, as I purchased a “Trust Me, I’m a Virgin” tee-shirt, the sales girl laughed. “Aren’t these a riot?” she asked.
“Yes, but, it is true.”
“You’re a virgin?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, you don’t know what you are missing.”
To which I rattled off a list of consequences, followed by the benefits of waiting.
“Yeah [...]

July 7, 2005
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Joseph Zanga, MD, President
American College of Pediatricians
Phone 252-744-2291
In the July, 2005, issue of Pediatrics the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released a Clinical Report on Adolescence Pregnancy (”Adolescent Pregnancy: Current Trends and Issues”). This report implies that it is the result of, or at least is representative [...]

Doctors’ Prescription Dangerous for Kids
American Academy of Pediatrics Supports Contraception Over Abstinence
Glenview, IL / July 8, 2005 — The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently revised their teen pregnancy policy in their updated version of the 1998 report, Adolescent Pregnancy: Current Trends and Issues, and now recommends birth control and emergency contraception to teens as [...]

The Daily Mining Gazette, 7/7/05
Michigan
The federal government only began funding abstinence-based sex education relatively recently, as part of the 1996 welfare reform.
The feds did something unusual when they funded abstinence education; a long-term study of the program was simultaneously authorized to track whether the programs made a positive difference in teenagers’ lives, as proponents [...]

The condom advocates point to a high level of public confidence in condoms as a reason to keep people in the dark to the medically-accurate information. Let’s review what the inflation of public confidence in condoms has gotten us over the past 40 years…
- Skyrocketing unmarried pregnancy (The CDC has attributed the majority of the [...]