Pro-life blog buzz 3-11-14
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Big Blue Wave says a new study acknowledges that “widespread and increased availability of oral emergency contraception over the past 10-14 years has made little difference to rates of unintended pregnancy, abortion and repeat abortion amongst teenagers.” However, the conclusion from this is that teens must now try another form of birth control – the IUD.
- Culture Campaign reports that “in his 2015 budget proposal to Congress, President Obama has eliminated grants for abstinence education funding.” And who would applaud this action more than the “non-partisan” abortion pimp Planned Parenthood, which benefits heavily from taxpayer dollars? The group’s president, Cecile Richards reacted, saying, “We are pleased that the budget eliminates funding for abstinence-only sex education…. We look forward to working with Congress to see [the president’s alternative sex education] investments protected.”
Yes, Cecile. We have no doubt that you do.
- The Leading Edge has a good article about why parents should be the providers of sex education for their children – not schools:
Late last week the issue of sex education made national headlines after it was revealed that a New Zealand primary school had held a sex education class for “eleven, 12 and 13 year olds where students were told about oral and anal sex, flavoured condoms, and pleasure points” – despite parents being told in writing beforehand that pupils would only be taught the basics.These are the basics?
- Josh Brahm describes the human atrocities – including forced abortion and infantide – occurring in North Korea, and challenges pro-lifers to use these stories in the right way:
How would I use this story in a conversation with a pro-abortion-choice advocate?… If a moral relativist says he doesn’t like this story, I’m going to ask…: “When you say you don’t like the sound of infanticide being performed that way, are you describing your personal feelings about it or are you describing the act itself?” Those are not the same thing. When I say that “rape is wrong,” I’m describing the act itself, not just how I feel about rape.I’ve found that, while it can be very difficult to make headway with some relativists, telling stories about horrific atrocities like this can shock them out of that apathy, so that their conscience can trigger them into seeing what they should have seen all along: Some things are objectively wrong.
- At Life Training Institute, Clinton Wilcox challenges an article written by Jon Speed of Babies Are Murdered Here documentary fame, in which he criticizes 40 Days for Life, claiming it opposes the preaching of the Gospel at its events and is therefore not a Christian organization:
The pro-life movement will never succeed as long as there are extremists who are trying to drive a wedge into the pro-life movement, dividing us, and playing into the hands of the pro-choice movement by embodying all of their stereotypes (that pro-life people are only interested in condemning women for having abortions, that they are just belligerent loudmouths, and that abortion is a religious issue). We need a better way to operate, and we need to be united. - Clinic Quotes shares a quote which states “amniocentesis is frequently done to identify Down syndrome children so parents have the option of abortion. The risk of miscarriage as a result of amniocentesis is almost exactly the same as the risk for Down syndrome.”
- At Live Action, Isaac Latterell notes an animal protection bill that passed the South Dakota Senate without opposition, and wonders why humans can’t seem to extend such protections to preborn humans:
Last week, SB 46 passed unanimously…. It is a bill that would make it a felony to “intentionally, willfully, and maliciously inflict gross physical abuse on an animal that causes prolonged pain, that causes serious physical injury, or that results in the death of the animal.”…It saddens me to have to write about this. But I will not sit silently by as our children’s lives are devalued to a place lower than dogs. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The Life Training Institute article is actually by Clinton Wilcox as opposed to Clinton Wax.
Thanks, JDC. Fixed.
The ending of funding is for abstinence-only sex ed. Because abstinence-only sex ed isn’t very…educational.
Gee, isn’t Culture Campaign a classy site! Obama ‘favors anal sex’. Teaching facts is ‘encouragement of deviant sexual behavior’. Does teaching school children about communism turn them communist?
The problem with parents being the only providers of sex-ed is that there are some who will teach ideology rather than facts.
Shall we seek to ban marriage because there are places where people are forced into it? The problem is the forcing. It is just as wrong to force women to have an abortion as it is to force them to continue an unwanted pregnancy and delivery.
There is the factual component to sex education and also a values component. When it comes to human sexualiaty, you can’t really separate the two. Planned Parenthood tries to teach values-free sex education, but instead end up injecting their own version of secular values into the process. Furthermore, any sex education course that does not teach about pregnancy, fetal development, and parenting is incomplete.
In TN it is mandated that the sex education be abstinence based, give factual accurate information about all the options that must be faced in a teen pregnancy, to include single parenting, abortion (can not encourage or refer for abortion), and adoption. Fetal development is also given.
This was the result of a group going into a public high school and discussing anal sex as a way to prevent pregnancy.
Abstinence is the better choice. How do I know this? I work one on one with students on a college campus. There is no condom for the heart. The absolute lie that sex can be divorced from moral education has laid waste to an entire generation. I see the damage every single day.
Yes Susie Allen, I have read of some who have made chastity committments using the old “I did not have sexual relations” line by using that…um…method.
Are you saying TN teaches ‘just say no’ then moves right on to how to deal with a pregnancy? Anything in between those two items?
They teach the only 100% method of avoiding unplanned pregnancy and STD is to practice abstinence. Your other comment must refer to the Bill Clinton, I did not have sex with that women….meaning she performed oral sex on me so that is not sex for me. It depends on your definition of sex. Planned Parenthood going into the schools and showing how to put on condoms has not been effective nor do their soft porn homemade videos advocating oral sex, etc.www.takecaredownthere.org.
If a student does not remain abstinent and becomes pregnant they need to have factual and accurate information about each option….not someone’s opinion. When the teen hears all of this they usually say abstinence is a better option because parenting, abortion and adoption are all hard.
From your sarcasm you think it is unrealistic to hold up abstinence as a preferred option. No wonder one in four teens already has an STD.
“reality:” “The problem with parents being the only providers of sex-ed is that there are some who will teach ideology rather than facts.”
Abstinence IDEOLOGY is a very good thing to teach Einstein simply for its high standard of responsibility. Is your ideology of unlimited inconsequential sex better in preventing pregnancies? Don’t thinkso. Is the term pro-active in your vocabulary at all???
Yes Susie Allen, the Clinton line. I think that some people, including some of those who claim to be abstinent, either think or use the excuse that it only counts as ‘sexual activity’ if it is those acts which can ordinarily lead to pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood going into the schools and showing how to put on condoms has not been effective – you’ve got the data for that?
If a student does not remain abstinent and becomes pregnant they need to have factual and accurate information about each option – you still haven’t clarified whether they are learning how that pregnancy may occur. You just go from ‘say no’ to dealing with a pregnancy.
From your sarcasm you think it is unrealistic to hold up abstinence as a preferred option. – not at all. I think sex-ed should start with “the best way to not get pregnant and to avoid catching an std is to not have sex. But if you find yourself in a situation where you choose to participate in sexual activity….knowledge.” Because knowledge is power. Which is why some folk seek to restrict the knowledge. Abstinence-only sex-ed isn’t sex-ed, it’s a travesty.
Abstinence IDEOLOGY is a very good thing to teach Einstein simply for its high standard of responsibility. – indeed Galileo, as I have just said to Susie Allen. Abstinence-only however, is a different story. But that isn’t the only risk of ideology rather than facts in parental teaching.
Is your ideology of unlimited inconsequential sex better in preventing pregnancies? – that is not my ideology.
Is the term pro-active in your vocabulary at all??? – yes it is Galileo. But it probably isn’t in the vocabulary of those who are fed abstinence-only ideology.
I actually support the end of abstinence-only sex-ed funding. Why? Because there should be no sex-ed funding.
It may be true that some parents will only teach ideology (as suggested by “Reality”), but the state teaches ideology, too. I know now, for a fact, that almost every “fact” I was taught in sex-ed in middle school was false. Period. End of story.
Having worked in schools, I also know it’s only gotten worse in the ensuing years.
Does teaching about communism make students communist? No. However, teaching about communism in a way that promotes it does make students communist, which our public education facilities do.
Students need to be educated outside of the school system in general. The school system has failed us. It needs to be ended. We need to start over.
Every fact was false? So how did they tell you pregnancy occurs? What did they say our ‘bits’ are for?
Students are taught to drive. Most go straight on out and become drivers! Drivers I tell you! Some speed, some have accidents. Let’s stop teaching young people to drive.
I’ll stick with a doctor, a lawyer and an accountant who were taught in schools thanks.
“reality:” “Is the term pro-active in your vocabulary at all??? – yes it is Galileo. But it probably isn’t in the vocabulary of those who are fed abstinence-only ideology.”
As always you are wrong “reality.” Abstinence-only is as pro-active as one can become. No sex=no pregnancy. Is this too difficult for your comprehension level? :)
It’s not ‘pro-active’ “thomas r.”, it’s ‘inactive’.
Even the most abstinent eventually have sex. Being properly and adequately educated and prepared for what may occur is what constitutes being ‘pro-active’. ‘Doing it’ after only having been taught ‘don’t do it’ is fraught with risks.
Or is that too complex for you to comprehend?