The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

I just read a report from CWA that this year alone, 15.3 MILLION Americans will contract a NEW sexually transmitted disease.  2-4 MILLION of those will be teenagers!  That means that every day, 8,000 teens contract a NEW STD.  Not to mention any they already had. 
Hello?!?!  And what do our states, governments and health centers [...]

The safety and effectiveness of the HPV vaccine Gardasil as a preventive cervical cancer treatment for girls are questioned in a report.
By Linda Marsa, Special to The Times
August 11, 2008
For the rest of the article, follow the link:
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/newsletter/la-he-gardasil11-2008aug11,0,2635375,full.story

The LA Tmes recently reported that concerns are still growing about the Gardasil vaccine, the supposed “first ever cancer vaccination.”  While reading this story, I came across this quote.  “The crux of it is that we know how to prevent cervical cancer,” Dr. Karen Smith-McCune says.  She then goes on to say that it’s with [...]

And people wonder why abstinence is best??? 
More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year_ the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they think better and more intensive screening accounts for much of [...]

Once upon a time men and women dated as a prelude to marriage which was a prelude to sex.  Today, teens are “hooking-up.”  As one teen explains, “First you give a guy oral sex and then you decide if you like him.”  What a tragedy for our society.  There are more than two-dozen sexually transmitted [...]

In 1999 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fast tracked a new drug on its way to the market. Produced by pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., it was a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug popularly known as Vioxx. Within five years, the drug was withdrawn from the market. Vioxx’s short life was due to several unfortunate [...]

International Planned Parenthood Federation getting their dirty little paws in Uganda.

Nonoxynol-9 is a common ingredient in various contraceptive jellies, lubes, creams, and spermicides. While it may be effective in preventing pregnancy, it’s also effective in aiding the transmission of HPV. To tell you the truth, this didn’t really seem like news to me, because we’ve known about this same effect in regard to HIV.
While we’re [...]

As it turns out, selling yourself for sex has physical consequences. What, then are we to do when porn stars start testing positive for HIV, chlamydia, and gonorrhea? Why, give them condoms, of course!
How backwards does a culture have to be when pornography is an acceptable career choice, and serious STDs are labeled simply as [...]