The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

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Heartbeat International
To: All Heartbeat Affiliates
From: Beth Diemert, Vice-President
Peggy Wolock, General Counsel
Nathan Burd, Director of Public Policy
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Recently Heartbeat had the opportunity to speak with two centers in Ohio that were visited by three representatives of the GAO (Government Accountability Office.) The GAO is an agency that works for Congress. Congress [...]

[Abstinence Clearinghouse E-Mail Update, 10/3/2005]
The real story behind Maine’s departure from the Title V abstinence education funds is finally starting to be revealed. This, according to a report in the Portland Press Herald.
The Press Herald reports that “the federal government tightened its rules for states that use tax dollars to [...]

By Leesa Barnes
EzineArticles.com
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Pride - Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.
(Source: American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language)
This sin has been called the [...]

Shannon Health and Wellness in San Angelo is looking to expand the programs offered in Del Rio, Texas, according to the Del Rio News-Herald. The Right Choices for Youth abstinence education began last year with school, parents and community components.
Since February 2004, some 800 Del Rio middle school and junior high [...]

PIA Press Release
09/30/2005
Dumaguete City (30 September) — A high-ranking government official in Dumaguete City is reminding families to go back to the basics of values and spirituality in the midst of overwhelming “social realities that not only threaten the family bond but even shatter it.”
City Vice Mayor William Ablong, in yesterday’s Kapihan sa Philippine [...]

Abstinence Clearinghouse E-mail Update
September 30, 2005
Shannon Health and Wellness in San Angelo is looking to expand the programs offered in Del Rio, Texas, according to the Del Rio News-Herald. The Right Choices for Youth abstinence education began last year with school, parents and community components.
Since February 2004, some 800 Del Rio [...]

Abstinence Clearinghouse E-mail Update
October 5, 2005
What began last year as an eight-minute speech assignment has grown into an hour-long abstinence presentation delivered by a Minnesota sixteen year-old, reported the Mankato Free Press.
Paul Blaschko, when challenged by his speech coach to speak on something he was passionate about, wrote an edgy skit titled “Jimmy Alders and [...]

Abstinence Clearinghouse E-mail Update
October 4, 2005
Morgan Matlock told The Paris News, Texas, that she is “a big fan of abstinence programs.”
Matlock, 2005 Miss Texas, who speaks to Texas students about abstinence through Project SAVE (Sexual Abstinence/Values Education) says, “There is no safe sex. There is certainly no safe sex from the emotional aspect.”
“They are not [...]

Abstinence Clearinghouse E-mail Update
October 4, 2005
The American Psychological Association’s Review of General Psychology has published a report tracking attitudes among young people from 1943 through 1999, according to the Washington Times. The report found that approval for premarital sex increased sixfold among young women.
Support was at 12 percent in the 1950s, according [...]

by Paul M. Weyrich
The Conservative Voice
September 29, 2005
Abstinence education has a good friend in the Bush Administration. After all, abstinence is the only proven and effective safeguard against unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Good causes in Washington usually earn the enmity of powerful reactionary forces and that is certainly the case with [...]