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Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration issued a mandate requiring so-called “comprehensive” sex education for all middle and high school students in NYC public schools.
In response, Dr. Anne Nolte, a family practice physician in Manhattan, wrote in a Fox News column last week that the city’s new mandate reminded her of the saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”
She then goes on to make some incisive observations:
In medicine, sometimes what is needed is a paradigm shift — not just small changes but a radical re-evaluation of the problem and the assumptions and presuppositions relating to it.
If we had the courage to look honestly at teen pregnancy, we wouldn’t be satisfied with a mandate that does the equivalent of placing a tiny band-aid on a gushing artery. If we had the courage to admit that we don’t have a solution, we’d be unwilling to spend more money on an old model that has pretty much failed. [Continue reading ...]
Perhaps it’s just that a broken clock is right twice a day. But I think this article is a little more promising than that.
My dad, Dan Gura, was reading last week’s Chicago Reader, a free Chicago newspaper. He was surprised to find some somewhat reasonable advise from the typically off-track and virulent Dan Savage in his love advice column “Savage Love.”
A woman calling herself “Classy Lady” writes (caution: explicit language used):
I was hanging out with a guy who’s in a relationship. … A while ago, I made the drunken mistake of climbing into the backseat of a car with him, and things got racy pretty quickly. …
Here we are a bit later, and I just had a pregnancy scare. Had I been pregnant, I would have had an abortion. If I’d actually been facing an abortion, I would have called and told him. Would that have been the right thing to do?
I wouldn’t have asked for money or support; I would have told him solely because it would have felt wrong not to. I had some feeling, like he should know—because he has a right to know, you know? I can’t imagine I’m the only woman who’s been faced with a “to tell or not to tell” situation. Weigh in?
Catherine, the brand-new Duchess of Cambridge, is known for being a fashion trend setter. So I was pleased when I saw that her dress was actually quite modest–by American wedding dress standards, that is.
Take a look at People Magazine’s “Fantasy Gowns for Kate” and count how many have anything on the shoulders, let alone long sleeves and you’ll see what I mean.
So will this cause a shift in dress design? I sure hope so.
What do you think? Will it last?
America is a very consumer culture. We want the newest iPhone, the newest iPad, the newest gaming system, whatever. We think we should be able to get anything and everything we want.
This also translates to our bodies and our children:
“Not Guilty,” a pseudonym used by a writer for the Abortion Gang blog, writes that becoming an attorney “is the culmination of a 16 year dream of mine.” But, if she were to become pregnant, it “could defer my ability to get called to the bar by 3 months, minimum.” Thus, an abortion would be justified: [Continue reading ...]
November 30, 1995—Loyola University student Annie Scheidler speaks to packed classrooms at Resurrection High School in Chicago during her first ever pro-life speaking engagement. Annie, fifth of League Directors Joe and Ann Scheidler’s seven children, would later found Generations for Life — the League’s youth outreach division — and speak to thousands of high school students about pro-life and chastity.
The Properly Attired condoms are no longer being sold by Urban Outfitters, as this screen clipping (with added red box) shows.
I love stories like this—these are what encourage me as an activist.
We may not have a friendly Court, we may not have a friendly Congress, and we may not have a friendly President, but our power lies with the people.
On August 11, 2010, American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood project (STOPP) called pro-lifers—parents, in particular—to stop a new product launched by Urban Outfitters. This “trendy” clothing store had decided to increase its profits by selling condoms. They called the product line “Properly Attired.”
Lurid sex columnist Dan Savage
The Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health is at it again.
In 2006, ICAH held its annual fundraiser at Playboy‘s executive offices.
That event—view the invitation here [PDF]—included a VIP reception with Playboy CEO Christie Hefner, the daughter of Hugh Hefner, who founded the magazine in 1953. Several years ago, Christie decided that the company could make more money by producing increasingly harder-core pornography—something that even her father was reluctant to do for a long time.
The next year, their annual fundraiser featured a stripper.
At this year’s event on June 15, ICAH will be honoring sex advice columnist Dan Savage with the group’s “Sexuality Activist Award.”
The fact that Savage is being honored tells us everything we need to know about ICAH’s values and the advice they believe should be given to kids. [Continue reading ...]
I was privileged to give a series of talks on Saturday at the Diocese of Brownsville‘s Youth Chastity and Pro-Life Conference held at St. Joan of Arc Parish in Weslaco, Texas.
The Diocese’s Pro-Life Apostolate organized the event, which attracted a crowd of over 300 teens, along with dozens of college students, young adults, and parents. As I’m primarily accustomed to speaking in classrooms or at pro-life club meetings, this was the largest group I’d ever spoken to!
Handing her the book, Hodgins asks Angela to read aloud the steamy scene that describes the intimate act that will always remind her of him.
If you’ve ever watched the Fox TV show “Bones,” you know that Dr. Temperance Brennan is a genius forensic anthropologist and a best-selling crime novelist.
A recent episode of the show (“The Bones on the Blue Line”) reveals the secret to her success: her friend, Angela, offers her advice to make her characters more believable and realistic.
The episode refers over and over to an intimate act that occurs on page 187. One woman even comments that she and her boyfriend tried it several times and they loved it.
The only thing I think I’ve ever learned about sex from TV is that it is pleasurable. And yet, somehow, Planned Parenthood thinks children have missed out on that factoid, and they need to be explicitly taught this in schools—beginning at age 10, according to a new study by the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
While God certainly created sex for pleasure, as John Paul II’s Theology of the Body teaches us, there’s more to it than that. Much, much more. And when it is separated from the bond of Holy Matrimony (and from an attitude of mutual self giving), the pleasure is fleeting and hardly amounts to much—and it’s more than outweighed by the risk of lifelong and even deadly STDs, out of wedlock pregnancies, and emotional devastation after he/she (almost inevitably) leaves you.
Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, writes in his introduction [pdf] to the study: “The whole world needs to accept that many young people, married and unmarried, are sexually active.” [Continue reading ...]