The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

By Jemele Hill
So Tim Tebow is college football’s Andy Stitzer.
But unlike Stitzer — the lead character played by Steve Carell in “The 40 Year Old Virgin” — Tebow isn’t embarrassed he’s a virgin, and he’s planning to stay nookie-free until he’s married.
For some reason, Tebow’s chastity admission — which came at SEC media day on [...]

By Jan Hoelscher • St. Cloud •

Columnist Marie Cocco has written two columns (March 31 and July 7) disparaging abstinence-only sex education programs, stating they don’t work for teenagers.
The Centers for Disease Control, Child Trends and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy — reputable, respectable sources — can provide statistics that support abstinence-only [...]

This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Ask any sane grownup in the world outside of Great Britain what would happen if you teach children about sex in school, hand them pamphlets saying they have a “right” to sex, never ever talk about abstinence or moral values, hand them condoms and send them [...]

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Some Albany young people hope to show the power of youth by taking policy ideas right to the policy makers in Washington D.C. Through World Vision, the group of nine went through 20 weeks of youth empowerment training.
They’ll spend the next few days bringing a policy they’ve developed to Congressmen [...]

by Moira Gaul
After 30 years of implementation and evaluation, there is no compelling evidence of contraceptive distribution and instruction programs having had a sustained and meaningful effect on “protective” behaviors-that is, “consistent and correct condom use” in classroom-type settings. As a public health intervention method, contraceptive programs have simply failed American youth: An STD epidemic [...]

I saw this on a recent Heritage Foundation blog.  I thought it made a very good case for abstinence funding!!
 
 
July 24, 2009
The Case for Maintaining Abstinence Education Funding
by Katherine Bradley and Christine Kim
 

 
The President’s budget for Fiscal Year 2010 would eliminate abstinence education funding. The Obama Administration has instead requested the creation of yet another [...]

CULTURE
“Here’s what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in [last] Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: ‘Frankly I had thought that at the time (Roe v. Wade) was decided,’ Ginsburg told her interviewer, Emily Bazelon, ‘there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.’ [...]

ABSTINENCE GOT TALENT! Rashida Jolley (an abstinence motivational speaker) will perform on AMERICA’S GOT TALENT tonight, Wednesday (07.29.09)!!! She rocked the house during her first performance and made it to the next round this evening. Shis is also rocking youtube.com and myspace.com! SHE IS AWESOME!!! 
You can go on the following You Tube link and see her performance and give it a [...]

Washington, D.C.–Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama) and Congressman Zach Wamp (R-Tennessee) today offered an amendment to restore funding that promotes abstinence and teen pregnancy prevention in the Fiscal Year 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill at a committee hearing.  The amendment was defeated 24-35.
The Fiscal Year 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill [...]

PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Sarah Floro
Phone: (605) 335-3643
Email: sarahf@abstinence.net
Date: July 10, 2009
 
Abstinence Advocates Get Slapped in the Face by House Sub Committee
 
Federal funding for abstinence until marriage education was stripped from the budget today in the House subcommittee, led by Rep. David Obey (D-WI).  The budget now goes to the full committee and to the full House [...]