The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

Antonio Garcia-Alavez went to school Thursday looking for a lesson in how to talk with his four children. By the end of the night, he and his 14-year-old son hugged.
“It kind of felt good,” Edgar Garcia said afterward. “We haven’t hugged in a long time.
“We’ll hug probably every day now, I hope.”
As part of its [...]

 “I’m SEXY enough…to keep you waiting.” That’s the copy on a skimpy new tank top created by the Candies brand. Released as a part of the Candies Foundation, which exists in part to reduce teen pregnancy and encourage abstinence, it is one abstinence shirt you don’t want your daughter to wear. It sends a mixed [...]

By Dr. Allen Unruh
 
Nothing threatens the future of the next generation more than defunding abstinence education.
 
The most deadly disease among young people is the disease of “immediate gratification.”
 
I want what I want,  when I want it,  and I want it NOW!
 
Public policy should always encourage moral restraint and responsibility.   It’s the foundation of freedom.
 
Too many [...]

‘Most Americans esteem marriage as a major commitment.’
Most Americans marry just once, according to new Census data. The survey of 3 million households shows 76 percent of those who have ever been married have married only once.
Nearly 20 percent have been married twice, and 5 percent have been married three or more times.
The [...]

1.  The basic dignity and value of human life shall be respected and upheld.
2.  Restraint shall be exercised in portraying the taking of life.
3.  Evil, sin, crime, and wrongdoing shall not be justified.
4.  Detailed, protracted and overly bloody or gory acts of brutality, cruelty, physical violence, torture, and abuse shall not be presented.
5.  Indecent or [...]

            Researchers with the Federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System have reported that Gardasil, marketed by Merck and touted as a preventive against strains of human papillomavirus that cause cervical cancer, has a 400 per cent higher rate of adverse effects than another comparable vaccine, the Menactra anti-meningitis shot.
            Gardasil is associated with twice as [...]

WASHINGTON, August 19, 2009
“Public Should Receive More Complete Warnings”
By Sharyl Attkisson
 
 (CBS)  Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing.
Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings [...]

Last year Capitol Resource Family Impact led the fight to stop AB 16, legislation that would have mandated the controversial HPV vaccine for girls as young as 11. The bill also stripped the legislature of its authority to individually approve mandatory vaccines for children, giving that power to the State Department of Public Health and [...]

Dr. Miriam Grossman, M.D.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The House of Representatives has approved an addition to the healthcare reform package. It calls for the creation of a “Healthy Teen Initiative”, and allocates $50 million to so-called “comprehensive” sex education.
“This was a vote to bring science back into government”, said James Wagoner, president of Advocates For [...]

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 [...]