Human Sexuality
4/23/2009 | Human Sexuality, Abortion
Associated Press
Seventeen-year-olds will be able to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, a decision that conservatives denounced as a blow to parental supervision of teens but that women's groups said represents sound science.
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not appeal, a federal judge's order that lifts Bush administration restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of "Plan B" to women 18 and older.
Women's groups said the FDA's action was long overdue, since the agency's own medical reviewers had initially recommended that the contraceptive be made available without any age restrictions.
...Korman ordered the FDA to let 17-year-olds get the birth control pills. He also directed the agency to evaluate clinical data to determine whether all age restrictions should be lifted.
The FDA's latest action does not mean that Plan B will be immediately available to 17-year-olds.The manufacturer must first submit a request.
"It's a good indication that the agency will move expeditiously to ensure its policy on Plan B is based solely on science," said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit.
Conservatives said politics drove the decision.
"Parents should be furious at the FDA's complete disregard of parental rights and the safety of minors," said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America.
Plan B is emergency contraception that contains a high dose of birth control drugs and will not interfere with an established pregnancy. It works by preventing ovulation or fertilization. In medical terms, pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches itself to the wall of the uterus.
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David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
7/1/2008 | Character and Ethics, Gender Issues, Human Sexuality, Marriage
USA Today
We used to know what infidelity was: sex with someone other than your mate.
But the 21st century seems to have blurred those clear-cut lines. Is having lunch every day with an opposite-sex work friend a breach of marital trust? What about a flirtation online? If there's no sex, is it really cheating?
Such questions arise as societal and psychological pressures challenge deep-rooted ideas about the nature of infidelity. "We are as a society finally coming to grips with what it means to be faithful," says Douglas Snyder, a psychologist at Texas A&M University-College Station. "It doesn't just mean to have sex with someone else."
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Karin Agness, Founder and President, Network of enlightened Women (NeW)
Alan Chambers, President, Exodus International
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Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
Mike Gottfried, Founder, Team Focus
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
Christopher Slattery, Founder and President, EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers
David Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family Institute
Randy Thomas, Executive Vice President, Exodus International
Lorianne Updike, President & Executive Director, The Constitutional Sources Project
David Wheaton, Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, TheChristianWorldview.com
6/20/2008 | Character and Ethics, Gender Issues, Homosexuality, Human Sexuality, Pornography, Pro-Family
Cape Cod Times
PROVINCETOWN — It's a slow week in the northern territory of the Cape Cod National Seashore when a man with a yellow towel flashing passers-by is the sole complaint about public sex acts.
In the past decade, the number of complaints about explicit, open public sex in the Provincetown and Truro portions of the national park has more than tripled, Seashore acting chief ranger Craig Thatcher said. The activity ranges from flashing to masturbation to men's outdoor orgies, he said
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Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Scott Davis, Director of Student Ministries, Exodus International
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
Todd Friel, Radio Host, Way of the Master
Mike Gottfried, Founder, Team Focus
Rick Green, President, Torch of Freedom Foundation
Colin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring
Lowman Henry, Chairman & CEO, Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc.
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
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Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
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David Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family Institute
Randy Thomas, Executive Vice President, Exodus International
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6/19/2008 | Character and Ethics, Gender Issues, Human Sexuality, Pro-Family
WBZTV.Com
GLOUCESTER (WBZ) ― There's a stunning twist to the sudden rise in teen pregnancies at Gloucester High School. 17 students there are expecting and, according to a published report, most of them became that way on purpose.
Time Magazine is reporting that nearly half of the girls confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. None of the girls is older than 16.
Principal Joseph Sullivan said that wasn't all that was shocking.
"We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," he told Time.
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Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Scott Davis, Director of Student Ministries, Exodus International
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6/11/2008 | Abstinence, Gender Issues, Human Sexuality
International Herald Tribune
PARIS: The surgery in the private clinic off the Champs-Élysées involved one semicircular cut, 10 self-dissolving stitches and a discounted fee of $2,900.
But for the patient, a 23-year-old French student of Moroccan descent from Montpellier, the 30-minute procedure represented the key to a new life: the illusion of virginity.
Like an increasing number of other Muslim women in Europe, she had a "hymenoplasty," a restoration of her hymen, the thin vaginal membrane that normally breaks during the first act of intercourse.
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Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
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Georgette Forney, Co-Founder, Silent No More
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Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
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David Smith, Executive Director, Illinois Family Institute
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6/10/2008 | Abstinence, Character and Ethics, Human Sexuality, Pro-Family
WCBS TV in New York City
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Now might be the time for New Yorkers to take advantage of the free condom campaign the city promotes. A new study by the city's Health Department found more than a quarter of adult residents are infected with the herpes virus.
According to the study, 26 percent of city residents have the virus that causes genital herpes, an incurable sexually-transmitted infection that can cause painful genital sores and can double a person's risk for HIV.
Nationally, 19 percent of the population has the infection, according to the department.
More specifically, the study showed that the rate is higher among women than men – 36 percent compared to 19 percent – and was higher among blacks than whites – 49 percent versus 14 percent, respectfully.
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5/29/2008 | Homosexuality, Human Sexuality, Pro-Family
International Herald Tribune
ALBANY: Governor David Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada.
In a directive issued on May 14, the governor's legal counsel, David Nocenti, instructed the agencies that gay couples married elsewhere "should be afforded the same recognition as any other legally performed union."
The revisions are most likely to involve as many as 1,300 statutes and regulations in New York governing everything from joint filing of income tax returns to transferring fishing licenses between spouses.
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Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
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Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
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5/26/2008 | Gender Issues, Homosexuality, Human Sexuality, Pro-Family
The Washington Times
It was a meeting of opposites: 30 conservative black Pentecostals from Hope Christian Church in Beltsville dining with 30 activists from Soulforce, a pro-gay religious group.
While there was no rancor or overt anger, there also was no meeting of minds. After nearly 90 minutes of debate Saturday night, no one on either side of the question of what the Bible teaches about homosexuality would admit to changing their minds.
"It was noncombative, nonpunitive dialogue," said the Rev. Troy Sanders, a gay black pastor from Atlanta who was one of the Soulforce speakers. Soulforce members queried after the dinner said they were pleased with their reception, and several said they would attend Hope Christian's Sunday service.
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5/21/2008 | Character and Ethics, Gender Issues, Homosexuality, Human Sexuality, Marriage, Medical Ethics, Pro-Family
Times Online
Single women and lesbian couples won landmark parental rights last night as MPs voted to remove the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child’s need for a father.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will replace the rule with a “need for supportive parenting” after opponents were defeated in two votes by unexpectedly wide margins.
The Government had been prepared for defeat but won the free votes by majorities of 75 and 68. The decisions mean that the legislation will grant the most significant extension to homosexual family rights since gay adoption was sanctioned.
It will stop fertility clinics turning away lesbians and single women because their children will not have a father or male role model. While the current law does not block such therapy, it is sometimes used to justify refusals.
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5/12/2008 | Character and Ethics, Environmental Issues, Gender Issues, Global Warming, Human Sexuality, Pro-Family
World Net Daily
"May we live long and die out" is the unofficial motto of a movement that seeks to improve the Earth's ecosystem by ensuring that the human species does not survive.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, or VHEMT, consists of volunteers who have made active life decisions to remain childless for the benefit of the Earth, thereby preventing the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals.
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Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Scott Davis, Director of Student Ministries, Exodus International
Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
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5/1/2008 | Character and Ethics, Freedom of Speech, Human Sexuality, Pro-Family
MLIVE.Com
Kristoff Wennersten figured his prom proposal had to be one-of-a-kind if it would have any chance of being accepted.
But the Huron High School senior never imagined it would result in a suspension for himself and 12 of his varsity lacrosse teammates, whom he recruited to help spell out the message at a school soccer match via their derrieres.
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Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Scott Davis, Director of Student Ministries, Exodus International
Tom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives
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Jessica Echard, Executive Director, Eagle Forum
Tim G. Echols, President/Founder, TeenPact
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org
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James Gelfand, Senior Manager of Health Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Lowman Henry, Chairman & CEO, Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc.
Dr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers Ministries
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Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
Gary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation Network
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Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny
Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
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Don Shenk, Executive Director, The Tide
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4/7/2008 | Abortion, Gender Issues, Human Sexuality, Marriage, Pro-Family
Breitbart.com
Divorce and abortion are offences in the sight of God, Pope Benedict XVI charged Saturday, while calling on the Catholic Church to be merciful to those who had experienced such events.
"The ethical judgement of the Church on divorce and abortion is clear and well-known," he told participants in a Catholic congress on marriage and the family.
"They are serious offences... which violate human dignity, inflict deep injustice on human and social relations and offend God himself, guarantor of conjugal peace and origin of life," he said.
However he added that there were people who had committed such "errors" but "suffered from wounds to the soul" and "sought peace."
"The Church has the duty to be close to these people with love and delicacy," the pope added.
"Divorce and abortion are choices... which sometimes develop in difficult and dramatic circumstances... and are a source of profound suffering for those who take such decisions.
"They also affect innocent victims, the barely-conceived and unborn infant, the children caught up in divorces."
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Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
Steve Curtis, LifeCommercials.com
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Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
William Devlin, National President, Redeem The Vote
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Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
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Peter Lillback, President, Westminster Theological Seminary
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Alex McFarland, President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
Joe Murray, Columnist, The Bulletin
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Elizabeth Racine, Founder, Moralert.com
Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder, Eagle Forum
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3/13/2008 | Pro-Family, Human Sexuality
My Way News
It may be the world's oldest profession, but prostitution is using some 21st-century tricks.
The prostitution scandal involving New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer lays bare some of the inner workings of modern-day sex work: text messaging to clock in the client, electronic fund transfers, a Web site featuring color photos, prices and rankings.
There's always been a distinction between indoor and street-level prostitution, and advances in technology have increasingly separated the two, said Ronald Weitzer, author of "Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry."
Not only can prostitutes and escort services now run more efficient businesses, but they can leverage word-of-mouth advertising in new ways to build their brands and troll for clients. Online social communities built around the escort and sex worker industries can solidify customer loyalty.
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Ward Connerly, Author/Founder and Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute
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Len Deo, President, New Jersey Family Policy Council
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Joseph Farah, CEO, Founder, WorldNetDaily
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