The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

Recently an article appeared in BBC News regarding the HPV vaccinations.  It stated that nearly three in 10 parents failed to agree to their children receiving the new cervical cancer vaccine during a trial.  One in five parents did not return consent forms, while 8% sent a refusal letter. The British Medical Journal study was [...]

A man’s character is his fate.  Too many submit to the fate of their own free will.

Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com wrote a great article regarding the recent congregational hearings on abstinence funding.  Please go to the following link and read it.  I think you will find it very informative.  http://www.lifenews.com/nat3887.html    
 

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I recently received the following email.  Thought many of you would enjoy it.  Read on–
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In the congressional hearings held last week, comprehensive sex education supporters would like you to believe that “abstinence-only-until marriage programs simply do not work” (James Wagoner, presient of Advocates for Youth). 
However, the day before the hearings, the Heritage Foundation released a review of 21 studies of abstinence programs, 16 of which showed positive results, such [...]

Can you believe this?  In Bisbee, Arizona, against the wishes of several parents, the local Bisbee School  Board voted 4-1 to in clude condoms in the “prom bags” it gives away to teenagers at the annual dance.  By doing so, they gave their blessing to a night of sexual indulgence.   The local paper covered this news with the [...]

The Committee held a hearing titled, “Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence” on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.  Federally-funded abstinence-only programs require the exclusive teaching of abstinence until marriage and prohibit teaching about condoms or other contraceptives — other than to discuss failure rates. These programs have received over $1.3 billion [...]

Free love is expensive!!

Comments and feedback regarding Waxman’s Hearing on abstinence education from April 23rd are found below. 
Waxman Hearing Concludes - Abstinence Clearinghouse
Hearing on Abstinence Unbalanced - Abstinence Clearinghouse
Senator Brownback
Washington Times
Family Research Council
WebMD
PalmBeachPost.com
Baptist Press
SignOnSanDiego.com
Sciam.com
ABC News
Los Angeles Times