Also Try Abstinence News -05-08-09 Obama Replaces Abstinence-Only Education (ABC News) "Two $100 million programs from his predecessor's budget pushing abstinence only are casualties in President Obama's $3.55 trillion budget proposal." "The President is replacing them with $110 million 'for teenage pregnancy prevention programs that have been proven effective through rigorous evaluation....' "A recent study in the journal Pediatrics indicated that teenagers who make "virginity pledges" to remain chaste until marriage are no less likely to engage in premarital sex but significantly less likely to use birth control." " 'Taking a pledge doesn't seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior,' Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health told the Washington Post. 'But it does seem to make a difference in condom use and other forms of birth control that is quite striking.' " Visitors sometimes misspell abstinence as abstinance. 05-09 Papers "Morning After" Pills (4Woman.gov) Describes a pill now available that is used as an emergency form of birth control or contraception soon after unprotected sex has occurred. It prevents conception rather than causing an abortion. 01-09 "Morning After" Pills (MSNBC News) Describes a pill now available that is used as an emergency form of birth control or contraception soon after unprotected sex has occurred. It prevents conception rather than causing an abortion. 9-04. "Morning After" Pills (WomensHealth.gov) "Emergency contraception, or emergency birth control, is used to help keep a woman from getting pregnant after she has had unprotected sex (sex without using birth control)." "Emergency contraception should not be used as regular birth control. Other birth control methods are much better at keeping women from becoming pregnant. Talk with your doctor to decide which one is right for you." 05-09 -Editorial: Behind the Family Planning Flap (Time.com) "The policy of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is that abortion "may not be claimed as a family-planning service" under any circumstances. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has barred the use of federal funds to pay for abortions. Individual states can use their own funds to pay for 'medically necessary' abortions for Medicaid recipients, and at least 17 states currently do so." "After Obama overturned the so-called abortion gag rule late last Friday — which had prohibited foreign nongovernmental family-planning groups from receiving any U.S. funds if they provided abortions or even lobbied for abortion rights in their country — House GOP leader John Boehner shot out a press release titled 'President Obama's Executive Order Allowing Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Overseas,' even though federal law continues to prohibit the use of U.S. funds for abortions in other countries." 01-09 -Editorial: How to End the War Over Sex Education (Time.com) "Advocates will debate at top volume the merits of abstinence-only efforts vs. more comprehensive programs that also teach about birth control and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)." "These arguments miss the point. We now have a pretty good sense of which sex-education approaches work. Substantial research--including a 2007 Bush Administration report--has concluded that comprehensive programs are most effective at changing teen sexual behaviors. They are also largely uncontroversial outside Washington. Vast majorities of parents favor teaching comprehensive sex education." Visitors sometimes misspell abstinence as abstinance. 03-09 Administrators Confiscate Student Newspapers (ABC News) "Copies of a high school's student newspaper were seized by administrators because the edition contained stories about birth control and tattoos, stirring a First Amendment debate." "First Amendment experts were critical of the seizure." 11-05 Help Your Kids Dodge Pregnancy and STDs (U.S. News) "Broaching the subject may be awkward, but gradually it will get easier for both parent and child, Schuster assures parents. His main advice: Start well before kids hit puberty, and don't shy away from questions or you'll encourage them to turn elsewhere for information. Research, he says, suggests that the kids most likely to delay sex, and practice it safely once they start, are those who think about their future—full of dreams and ambitions—and whose parents communicate with them about sexuality. 'Parents can have a much greater influence than they realize,' says Schuster." Women on Birth Control Choose "Wrong" Partners? (CBS News) "A woman is sexually attracted to men who smell like a good genetic match, but birth control pills make her desire the "wrong" men, a U.K. study shows." 08-08

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