New Study Claims Abortion Rate Has Dropped: Minority Rate Still Disproportionately High

“A new report from the Guttmacher Institute, the research division of Planned Parenthood, claims there are fewer abortions now than there were thirty years ago, while admitting that minority abortions continue to run high.
The report says that in 1980 there were 29 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, and by 2004, that number [...]

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Planned Parenthood affiliate removes ‘lewd’ videos from web site

From CNA…
“A series of “lewd” videos produced by the Columbia-Willamette, Oregon affiliate of Planned Parenthood has been taken down from the organization’s web site.
According to the American Life League (ALL), videos have been removed from the site “Take Care Down There,” which was marketed as sex education. The offensive videos included skits of two teen [...]

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Sexually Active Teenage Girls “Twice As Likely” To Suffer From Depression

“Research which appeared recently in the Journal of Health Economics has found that young girls who are sexually active often experience feelings of guilt, low self-esteem, regret and shame, and are far more likely to suffer from depression than those who remain chaste.”
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Study shows that cyber sex linked to depression

“People who seek out cyber sex have “alarmingly high” rates of depression, anxiety and stress and typically devote hours a day to the covert activity, a study shows.
Australian research is shedding new light on the types of people who frequent online sex, fetish and swinging sites, revealing they are overwhelmingly male, well educated, and aged [...]

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“I used to be the only gay in the House”

Labour MP Tim Barnett has given an interview to the media in which he talked about his time in politics, telling them that he “used to be the only gay in the house”, and then he slipped in this rather ominous statement:
“Mr Barnett said he might work for the United Nations and then return to [...]

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Uneducated parents poorer

New figures show the income gap between families of unqualified and qualified parents has more than doubled over 25 years.
…People at the lowest ends of society lacked basic skills and were discouraged from improving themselves.
“They are led to believe and end up believing that they’re no-hopers and they can’t learn. Basically, they settle for depending [...]

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The UNFPA Discovers Natural Family Planning, Sort of

By Colin Mason
In an apparent break with its pill-pushing past, the UNFPA has begun promoting a natural method of birth regulation. To avoid confusion with (or to avoid giving credit to?) Natural Family Planning, which is so closely identified with the Catholic Church, they call it “Cyclebeads.”
Cyclebeads consists of a string of plastic beads, each [...]

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A united front on natural law

“Western moral philosophy is not doing too well at the moment. While moral philosophers get their moments of fame on ethics committees and may be asked to give opinions on various issues ranging from the environment to euthanasia every now and then, nobody pays much attention to them.
This is because the subtext of the morality [...]

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How schools can work with parents

Respecting parents as the first educators of their children is easy. Making it happen is tougher.
Read the full article here.

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Sarah Palin, An American Original

by Steven W. Mosher
On the corner of Euclid and Foothill Boulevards in Upland, California, stands a statue of a pioneer woman. She is striding forward, carrying a baby in her left arm and a rifle in her right. Clinging to her skirts for protection is a small boy.
At 10 feet tall, erected on an eight [...]

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