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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A national Christian doctors organization is applauding a new study showing how abstinence education is more effective than either comprehensive sexual education or teaching only about contraception. They say the results coincide with polling data showing parents favor teaching their children abstinence.

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Conservative groups are urging the Obama administration and Democratic leaders to take a second look at abstinence education after a federally funded landmark study showed that such programs were more successful than comprehensive sex education in stopping teen sex.

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Abstinence-only programs – minus religion – can delay teen sex Globe and Mail “We took the religion out of it,” says Geoffrey Fong, a health psychology professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, who co-authored the study … Reader CommentsU.S. News & World Report (blog) Groundbreaking Study Proves Abstinence Education WorksChristian News Wire (press release) all 400 news articles »

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By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Theory-based, abstinence-only intervention has been linked a lower rate of sexual involvement among African American preteens, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,…

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A new study gives proponents of abstinence education ammunition in the struggle to receive federal funding for abstinence-centered education.

Fred Jackson Abstinence

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Contact Sarah Floro, National Abstinence Clearinghouse, 605-335-3643

SIOUX FALLS, SD, Feb. 1 /Christian Newswire/ — A new study released today shows that abstinence education is highly effective in reducing sexual activity among youth. It also showed contraceptive sex ed programs to be ineffective.

The decrease is noteworthy; the study followed students a full two years after completion of the abstinence class. One third of students showed a decrease in sexual activity, compared with tho Source: Abstinence Clearinghouse

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. | Jeiel Ballard and his girlfriend, both 16, are dressed up in their best attire, ready for a night of dancing and fun. But there will be no close embraces or risque moves to test chaperones. The “purity ball” sponsored by their Seventh-day Adventist Church will feature a vow to abstain from sex until marriage and offer tips on “appropriate” touching between the sexes.

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A new study shows American teen pregnancy and abortion rates are escalating – and while abortion advocates fault supporters of abstinence, one group is placing blame for the pregnancy boom squarely with Planned Parenthood-style sex education.

A study released today by the Guttmacher Institute, formerly a division of Planned Parenthood, shows teenage pregnancy increased by 3 percent in 2006 as 750,000 women younger than 20 – or 7 percent of America’s teen girls – became pregnant. This trend follows a decade of declining pregnancies among teenagers.

Also in 2006, there were 42 births for every 1,000 teenage girls – 4 percent higher than 2005. Abortions increased by 1 percent from 2005 to 2006.

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Washington D.C., Jan 26, 2010 / 09:25 pm (CNA).- The Guttmacher Institute released a study on Jan. 26 claiming that abstinence-only education programs are to blame for a rise in teen pregnancies and abortions in 2006. However, abstinence education proponent Valerie Huber is denouncing the researchers’ conclusions as “terribly simplistic” and “disingenuous.”

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AP – Jeiel Ballard and his girlfriend, both 16, are dressed up in their best attire, ready for a night of dancing and fun.

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The best way to encourage people to save sex for the covenant of marriage.

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A Virginia school principal has fallen under the scrutiny and criticism of her own staff for publicizing abstinence.

Melonie Manning Abstinence, Cult, School

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GRAND RAPIDS — Cornerstone University is lifting a ban on faculty and staff alcohol use that has stood since the institution was founded 68 years ago.

President Joe Stowell told Cornerstone’s 279 employees at a staff meeting Friday that alcohol abstinence — a component of a lifestyle statement that had to be signed every year — is being dropped because a three-year internal study concluded it is “biblically indefensible.”

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Abstinence education funding has made its way into the healthcare bill.

Jody Brown Abstinence, Health

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For years singer and author Rebecca St. James has passionately delivered her True Love Waits message about abstinence and purity. Now she is extending that message with a burden for the unborn via her latest movie, Sarah’s Choice, which released on DVD, reports Charisma News Online.

In her first leading role, St. James portrays Sarah Collins, a rising single professional who has to make a life-altering decision when she gets pregnant. Sarah struggles with her new reality and also faces her do… >>

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Maybe there’s a counterrevolution brewing. One can always hope. I recently wrote about the Anscombe Society at Princeton, a student organization that promotes traditional moral values, especially when it comes to sex. Turns out Harvard has its own pro-abstinence club called True Love Revolution, which was founded in 2006 by students Justin Murray and Sarah [...]

Marcia Segelstein Abstinence, Evolution

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By Kathleen GilbertMADISON, Wisconsin, October 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A law set for consideration in the Wisconsin state legislature aims to replace the abstinence-only curriculum used in the state's public schools with one that educates students on the use of condoms and…

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With President Obama’s 2010 budget set to cut all funds for abstinence-only sex-ed programs, Newsweek reports on the varied approaches these programs will take as financial support vanishes.
The Future of Abstinence” chronicles the history of the abstinence movement since 1996, showing that some programs were entirely “abstinence-only” while others changed into a hybrid of abstinence [...]

Scott Lamb Abstinence, Financial, History, Obama

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By Peter J. SmithWASHINGTON, D.C., September 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lawmakers on a Senate committee tasked with health-care reform narrowly voted on Tuesday night to approve the restoration of $50 million in annual federal funding for sex education that only promotes the practice of…

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To many people Christianity seems to be a religion that fears the body, containing it and its appetites. From teaching on sexual continence to the exhortations to the faithful on fasting and abstinence, Christianity is connected in the sceptic’s mind with denial. Yet Christianity is a very “fleshy” religion. At its heart is not just God or the supernatural but the body, with all its bones, blood and skin. The Incarnation – the miracle that means that God became man – is so familiar to Christians that it is easy to overlook what this means. But there it is in the first chapter of St John’s Gospel – “the word became flesh, and dwelt among us”. It could not be put more powerfully. John…

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