The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

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 […]

The “tragic outcomes” of two recent pregnancies among Texas teenagers shows that abstinence-only sex education programs are “not working,” Peter Durkin, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas, writes in a Houston Chronicle opinion piece.  Durkin adds, “Sex education should begin “at home with parents…”
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen […]

City schools’ abstinence-based program targeted
Monday, March 17, 2008
By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Amid a national debate over how much schools should teach students about sex, a parent-led group has begun circulating an Internet petition to force an overhaul of the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ abstinence-based sex-education curriculum.
The group is pushing for what’s commonly called “comprehensive” sex education. […]

I am truly sorry about the crisis with the funding, I receive no money from any government grant. The money raised for our program comes from local support and I know we are a small city compared to some. I work part ,now, full time as a nurse at the hospital night shift, my salary […]

By John L. Harmer, Chairman 
In February of 2007 the Lighted Candle Society published a book entitled The Sex Industrial Complex. The most consistent reactions to the book were the negative comments about the title. Many people apparently felt that the title (and hence the message) of the book was simply too strident.  This newsletter is […]

You can call them gluttons for punishment. They’ve begun calling themselves that.
After no children or parents showed for Planned Parenthood of West Texas’ Real Life. Real Talk. sex education session in August, organization officials rescheduled the workshop for Tuesday night at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest at South 6th and Meander streets.
This time, […]

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 Within five years, the drug was withdrawn from the market.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 […]

A new ad from Allstate insurance states, “Even bright, mature teenagers sometimes to things that are stupid.  But when that happens, it’s not really thier fault.  It’s because their brain hasn’t finished developing.  The underdeveloped area is called the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex.  It plays a critical part role in decision making, problem solving and […]