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  • Opinion:What the Bristol Palin Break-Up Says About Teen Pregnancy

    By The National Campaign March 16, 2009

    So Bristol Palin and Levi Johnson have called off their engagement and broken up. Let's put aside all the hubbub that has surrounded this story since the beginning -- the Red State/Blue State sniping, the I-told-you-so's about abstinence-only education , the small-minded jabs about...

  • Opinion:If Abstinence has Failed, so has All Sex-Ed

    By Illinois Family Institute July 12, 2009

    By Laurie Higgins, Director of IFI's DSA | Illinois Family Institute There is much to ruminate about following the publication of a study that compared the sexual behavior of teens who took virginity pledges with that of teens who did not. The study by Janet Rosenbaum appeared in the Jan.

  • Opinion:Is Virginity Overrated?

    By Jill Stanek May 05, 2009

    By Heather B Recently, MSNBC 's Today Show hosted a forum between guests Jessica Valenti , author of The Purity Myth and founder of the leftist blog Feministing.com , and Lakita Garth , author of The Naked Truth , former CEO of her own company in CA , and virgin...

  • Research:Texas Failing Families, Teens on Sexuality Education

    By Texas Freedom Network February 25, 2009

    Mistruths, Fear, Ignorance Characterize Sex Ed Amid High Teen Birth, STD Rates Texas gets more federal abstinence funding than any other state and has one of the highest teen birthrates in the nation, but an extensive new study shows that what students are learning in sexuality education...

  • Opinion:Obama's Nomination of Hamburg for FDA Head Deeply Flawed

    By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights March 15, 2009

    Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds to news that President Obama has nominated Margaret A. Hamburg as the director of the Food and Drug Administration:   “In 1994, I received a letter from Dr. Hamburg, New York City’s Health Commissioner, complaining about ads the Catholic...

  • Advice:How to Teach Your Kids About Sex

    By Suzanne Venker June 18, 2009

    If you're a parent, you know you're going to have to teach your kids about sex eventually -- if you haven't already. The problem parents face is that the cultural messages are in direct conflict with most parents' values. True, not all parents teach their children the same values. But how many...

  • Opinion:Obama's Budget an Exciting Victory for Women's Health

    By Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice May 07, 2009

    President Obama's 2010 budget, released today, contains tremendously important steps for the health and well-being of women and young people that take us out of the darkness of the past eight years and move us into the light. The budget eliminates funding for abstinence-only programs...

  • Opinion:In Defense of Bristol Palin and Abstinence

    By The National Campaign May 08, 2009

    By Amy Kramer I went to NYC yesterday because my boss, Sarah Brown, was one of the panelists at a National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy event . Bristol Palin was also a panelist. Bristol is a parenting teenager - like hundreds of thousands of other girls in this country, she got...

  • Opinion:Jill Stanek - "Sex-Ed is Unnecessary and Harmful"

    By Jill Stanek June 16, 2009

    With renewed debate over how to curb the rampant, irresponsible sexual activity of our youth - the other side pushing more of what sexualized our children to begin with - we thought it a good time to resurrect a good piece on Life Site News last year by Psychiatrist Dr. Philip Ney regarding...

  • Opinion:Parents Should Fight "Comprehensive" Sex-Ed

    By Illinois Family Institute July 14, 2009

    By Laurie Higgins, Director of IFI's DSA - Illinois Family Institute Those of us who are troubled by both premarital sexual activity and by comprehensive sex education should not abide in a state of willful ignorance or complacency about the problem of how to educate our children about...

  • News:House Wrong to Cut Funding for Abstinence Education

    By Heritage Foundation July 27, 2009

    The FY10 Labor-HHS Appropriations bill heads to the House floor today. The Appropriations Committee approved this annual spending bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education last week. While the appropriation includes funds for programs to “help at-risk women...

  • Opinion:Miss. Abstinence Evangelicals Not Familiar With 1st Amendment

    By Texas Freedom Network September 18, 2009

    From TFN Insider Texas isn’t the only state that is constitutionally challenged. In fact, Mississippi is giving us a run for our money when it comes to (willful?) ignorance about what the First Amendment means. Earlier this summer, our friends at Advocates for Youth brought us the...

  • Opinion:Sexual Abuse by Rabbis - Where is the Public Outcry?

    By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights October 14, 2009

    Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a front-page news story in today’s New York Times on the problem of child sexual abuse: Reporter Paul Vitello shows the shocking extent of child sexual abuse in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community. He also details the cover-ups that have long...

  • Opinion:Save Kissing for Marriage, Says Virgin Lips Movement

    By Focus on the Family May 06, 2009

    Dr. Al Mohler is writing and talking about a trend among dating believers to reserve all sexual intimacy -- including kissing -- for marriage. He says: Over the past thirty years Western civilization has undergone a near total transformation in sexual morality. Sex education programs...

  • Opinion:New York Says No to Gay Marriage

    By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights December 03, 2009

    Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the vote by the New York State Senate rejecting a bill to legalize same-sex marriage (the vote was 38-24): The left-wing Huffington Post had a headline earlier today that was classic. It read, “START SPREADING THE NEWS: New York Debating...

  • News:Pope Says Condom Use Will Worsen AIDS Crisis in Africa

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff March 17, 2009

    On route to his first visit to Africa, Pope Benedict XVI told a group of reporters that condoms aren't the answer to stopping the troubled continent's AIDS epidemic. The statement marked the first time the pope has made explicit his views on condom use, a highly controversial issue both within and...

  • Opinion:Disgrace! Texas Schools Won't Teach Medically Accurate Sex-Ed

    By Texas Freedom Network May 25, 2009

    From the TFN Insider The Texas House failed last week to pass a measure that would require information in public school sex education classes be medically accurate. Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller decried the failure by the Texas House to require that public schools teach only...

  • Opinion:Nevada Welcomes Male Prostitutes; Brothel Owners Not Happy

    By Family Research Council December 16, 2009

    Prostitution has long been legal and regulated in the state of Nevada, but a technicality in the law —a health code requirement for “cervical” exams to check for STD’s—had prevented males from serving as prostitutes. The state’s board of health has now lifted that barrier (by...

  • Opinion:Obama Declares War on Marriage, the Catholic Church

    By Deal Hudson October 13, 2009

    President Obama, the man trusted by the USCCB to do the "right thing" on health care , has declared war on marriage and, by implication, the Catholic Church. Speaking to the nation's leading homosexual rights lobbying group, the Human Rights Campaign , Obama said: You will see a time in...

  • Opinion:This Week is White Ribbon Against Pornography Week

    By Family Research Council October 28, 2009

    According to Bob Peters of Morality in Media, our nation is facing a moral crisis, including, among other things, teen promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases (including AIDS ), abortion , illegitimacy, divorce, sexual abuse of children , rape, trafficking in women and...

  • Opinion:DC Gay Marriage Bill Does Not Protect Religious Liberties

    By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights November 17, 2009

    Catholic League president Bill Donohue takes issue with those who are critical of the Archdiocese of Washington for rejecting the D.C. bill on gay marriage : When the bill to promote homosexual marriage was first introduced in D.C., the Archdiocese of Washington was fine with it. That’s...

  • Opinion:Half of Teen Girls Get STDs Within 2 Years of Having Sex

    By National Center for Policy Analysis December 09, 2009

    Within two years of having sex for the first time, half of teenage girls may be infected with at least one of three common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), according to a new study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Often, those girls are infected by the age...

  • Opinion:Should Sexting be Illegal?

    By Common Sense Media May 21, 2009

    By Liz Perle , Common Sense Media co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Your child -- a registered sex offender? I would love to think that ' sexting ' was only a theoretical issue in my family , but with two teens in the phone-zone, I can't make any promises that one of them hasn't sent off a...

  • Video:Bristol Palin Endorses Abstinence on Good Morning America

    By Opposing Views Editorial Staff May 06, 2009

    Bristol Palin, the daughter of former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, sat down with Good Morning America today to talk about the pregnancy that thrust her into the national spotlight. Most notably, despite previously calling abstinence unrealistic , Bristol has now made herself a...