The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

When it comes to effectively reducing teen abortions, it’s apparent that there are those who “get it”, and those who don’t. In this particular case, it’s easy to let the numbers speak for themselves.
Annual census adjustments were calculated into abortion statistics for each year 2001 – 2005. Source: Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau.
States rejecting abstinence [...]

I read this on a blog yesterday.  I found it very disturbing and thought I should share it with everyone.
U.N. Agency Calls for Teaching Children 5-to-8 Years of Age about Masturbation
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
By Christopher Neefus
(CNSNews.com) – A June report from the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) suggests children of all countries [...]

I saw this blog and thought I would share it.
August 18th, 2009

There has been much debate between the difference, if any, on purity and abstinence. There is a huge difference. For some reason, the world insists that it is just about abstinence, virginity pledges as what we need to do, and then hope it [...]

I recently read this blog and thought I would pass it on.  I found it very interesting–
IN THE Aug. 4 front-page article “Cautions for and from teens,’’ I was happy to read about a new safe-sex campaign that talks to adolescents through their preferred modes of communication, such as Facebook, YouTube, and cable channels. In [...]

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 [...]

I found this article on the  “An Angry American” blog site.  I think it is very interesting–
 
 
An Angry American

Random thoughts on politics, life, and the world in general
 
Teaching Abstinence doesn’t work…
At least that’s what they say. But, how about the alternative? How does it measure up?
Here’s an example of just how well they’re doing:
A [...]

I love the following from “Why True Love Waits” – The Definitive Book on How to Help Your Kids Resist Sexual Pressure by Josh McDowell.
 
“The ‘safe sex’ message of our culture encourages a false sense of security in our young people. They rationalize, ‘I want to have sex, but I don’t want to get pregnant [...]

by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
Barack Obama promised us “change we can believe in.” He promised to move beyond all the tired ideologies and culture wars of the past. How strange then, that on his watch, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should propose the implementation of one of the most outdated and laughable ideologies of [...]

New FDA Records Obtained by Judicial Watch Indicate 28 Deaths
Related to Gardasil in 2008
 
Records Document 6,723 Adverse Reactions in 2008,
Including 1,061 Considered “Serious” and 142 Considered “Life Threatening”
 
(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the Food and Drug Administration [...]

I read with interest an article posted by Bob McAlister and Dave Wilson as they relate the story of a girl they called Amanda who found herself pregnant at 15-years-old.  Her legacy—her mom was 30; her grandmother, 45.  You do the math; each of them had once upon a time been in Amanda’s predicament.
 
In Amanda’s [...]