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“American Idol” Runs Ad for Questionable Teen Website
Closed Published by Peggy Jackson March 8th, 2010 in Abstinence by Kortney Blythe
While watching “American Idol,” a commercial came on that caught my attention. An amateurish-looking home video showed two giddy, laughing teenage girls jumping on a trampoline, acting goofy. Then a voiceover said:
“I love my life. I’m not gonna mess it up with a pregnancy.”
And a web site flashed on the screen: Stayteen.org.
Being the [...]
By Dr. Allen Unruh
In the state of Iowa a Judge ruled that it is legal for a drunk minor to be led to a stage in a strip club in front of a bunch of drunk men and strip because according to his opinion and the way the laws are written in Iowa it’s nothing [...]
Teen Pregnancy Rate Up: I wonder why. . .
Closed Published by Peggy Jackson February 17th, 2010 in AbstinenceGreat information from Jennifer Roback Morse:
I note with interest that Reuters interviewed representatives of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research wing of Planned Parenthood. “Its all the fault of those Big Bad Social Conservatives.” Oddly enough, Reuters did not interview anyone from the abstinence education movement. I wonder why? Perhaps they dont’ know where to [...]
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 [...]
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