Bishop T. D. Jakes appeals to black churches around the nation to join a unified strategy to deal with the pandemic of HIV/AIDS in the black community.
House Democrats increased funding for abstinence-only programs last week just in time for a new non-partisan report that reveals abstinence-only programs are not effective at reducing teen pregnancy and STD rates.
Women are dying from preventable causes and the U.S. is contributing to the problem. This was the grave truth repeated at last Wednesday’s Congressional hearing on the Global Gag Rule--the first hearing of its kind in the last decade.
Claim to care about "unborn" children, then actively promote the industries that pollute the environment with toxins that cause serious developmental diseases - it's textbook hypocrisy.
We may want our kids to "just say no," but when it comes to doling out abstinence-only funding, Congress isn't abstaining. In the latest federal budget bill, Congress gives it away. Big time.
Women may be sad or depressed after an abortion, but that doesn't suggest a "post-abortion syndrome," which is based on the idea that the sadness would be absent but for the abortion, and that a woman's mental health would be fine if she'd chosen to have the baby.
When my older son was born in October 2000, we could not have welcomed a baby into a more mature, loving situation, but between his colicky cries and my changing hormones, I was ragged, terrified, and humiliated.
