The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

By Rachel Campos-Duffy
Feb 10th 2010 11:00AM
Let’s face it. Polls and studies can be easily manipulated. In Amy Hatch’s recent column, “Abstinence Education to Blame for Rise in Teen Pregnancy Rates,”she cited a study by the Guttmacher Institute that concluded that pregnancy rates rose as a result of abstinence programs.
This month, the Archives of Pediatrics and [...]

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 9, 2010
Source: lifenews.com
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) – A recent Planned Parenthood report pushing sex and abortion for children is drawing more fire from pro-life advocates. Now, Catholic League president Bill Donohue is attacking the document because he says it rips Catholicism and promotes “sexual engineering” by “smearing religious conservatives, especially Catholics.”
The [...]

NAC Press Release 2/10/10
A new report by the International Planned Parenthood Federation is recommending that children as young as 10 years old receive mandatory graphic sex education, which includes teaching them the “pleasures of sex.”
 
The report, “Stand and Deliver” recommends - in fact, demands - that children as young as 10 should be seen as [...]

Article by Family Research Council fpc.org
Most third and fourth graders barely know what sex is, let alone have any desire to try it. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is advocating in a new report, “Stand and Deliver.” As part of the global push, IPPF “demands” that children 10 and older [...]

Teaching Kids the ‘Pleasures of Sex’?
International Planned Parenthood Federation’s recommendation to teach joys of lovemaking to 10-year-olds in school
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/28949005/teaching-kids-the-pleasures-of-sex.htm
 

Title:
Sex Ed for 10-Year-Olds?
Published: Tue, 9 Feb 2010
Description: Planned Parenthood pushes sex ed
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/28946956/sex-ed-for-10-year-olds.htm#q=citizens+for+responsible+curriculum
 

Americans have received messages for years from so-called social scientists presenting “evidence” that abstinence programs are ineffective, that they actually increase sexual activity among teens. Now, a landmark study on abstinence education published in a refereed journal, The Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, gives solid evidence that abstinence education is effective in delaying teen sexual [...]

Thanks, Maggie, for speaking up on this important issue:
Somebody up there has a wicked sense of humor.
How else do you explain the release this week of a new study by John B. Jemmott III proving that an abstinence-only education program works?

First President Obama slashes virtually all federal funding for abstinence-only education programs in 2010. (”It’s [...]

This was an interesting blog report that I recently read:
 Educators are being asked to take another look at sex education for 11 to 13-year-old students in light of a recent study from the United States that suggests abstinence programmes could persuade young people to delay sexual activity.
 
The report, written by researchers from Pennsylvania University [...]

Article 2/2/10 from citizenlink.com
by Nima Reza, managing editor
Students who took part in the abstinence education class were less likely than their counterparts to engage in sexual activity.

Abstinence education is effective in reducing sexual activity among youth, according to a study published in the February 2010 Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine conducted by University of [...]