Doctors Group Prescribes IUDs For Teen Girls

September 22, 2012 By 2 Comments

DR. LISA PERRIERA TOLD ABC NEWS THAT IUDS ARE ‘TRULY GREAT’ FOR TEEN-AGE GIRLS.

More than 40 percent of adolescent girls, ages 15 to 19, are sexually active, according to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. And some 750,000 teen girls get pregnant every year.

So what did ACOG recommend this week to prevent teen pregnancies? Offer under-age girls “long-acting reversible contraception” – intrauterine devices (IUDs) and contraceptive implants.

“I absolutely think that teens should be using these methods as first line,” Dr. Lisa Perriera, an ACOG member, an OB/GYN at CaseMedicalCenter in Cleveland, told ABC News.

“The important thing for teens to know,” she said, “is that these devices are an on/off switch for getting pregnant. They’re truly great.”

What Perriera is telling teen girls, in effect, is go ahead and have sex. Just make sure you have an IUD.

Well, this Christ follower thinks there is a far more important thing for teens to know: No matter what doctors and the devil tell them, they are not hard-wired by their Creator to have pre-marital sex.

They’re not a salmon that must swim upstream. They’re not swallows that must return to Capistrano.

While the popular culture tells them that all their teen-age peers are having sex, it’s a Big Lie. Indeed, ACOG itself acknowledges that nearly 60 percent of teen girls are not sexually active.

Instead of promoting teen use of long-acting reversible contraception as the best way to reduce teen pregnancy, what have been “truly great,” to use Perriera’s words, is ACOG encouraged teen abstinence.

Of course, the medical community, along with the education establishment, think sex education and contraceptives are the better way to prevent 750,000 teen girls from getting pregnant each year.

But they are wrong. And a 2010 study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, bears that out.

The study followed six and seventh graders that were divided in two groups, one of which encouraged abstinence, the other contraception and “safe sex.” After two years, researchers found that half of those taught safe sex were sexually active, while only a third taught abstinence only were engaged in sex.

And that third almost certainly would have been even smaller if their abstinence only education was not strictly secular, but also leavened with moral instruction.

For the Bible advises that we train up a child in the way he (or she) should go. And the way for teens to go is to present their young bodies a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.

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Melinda Gates Obfuscates on ‘Family Planning’

July 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

MELINDA GATES KNOWS VERY WELL WHY ‘FAMILY PLANNING’ IS CONTROVERSIAL.

“Where’s the Controversy in Saving Lives?” asks Melinda Gates, in a blog post defending her $560 million campaign to spread “family planning,” in all its forms, throughout the Third World.

She invited visitors to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website to “watch this video and let me know what you think.”

So I watched her video and this is what I think: Mrs. Gates has deliberately ignored the link between “family planning” and sexual promiscuity and abortion.

She says the aim of her campaign is “simply giving a woman the opportunity to decide when to become a mother.” She says, “Women in Kenya, Malawi and India want this power.” And she says that, by mass distributing contraceptives, more than a quarter-million maternal deaths can be prevented each year.

But the “family planning” issue is not as simple, not as uncontroversial, as Mrs. Gates suggests.

Indeed, if a woman is married, but unready to become a mother, then most Christians, most social conservatives, have no problem with her using contraceptives.

But it’s a different story if a woman is unmarried. The purpose served by the Gates Foundation’s contraceptives is not “family planning,” but to enable the single woman to be sexually promiscuous without risk of pregnancy.

The most odious aspect of “family planning” is that it places pregnancy prevention on the same par with pregnancy termination, suggesting they are simply different means to the same end.

But while almost every one sees the value in preventing unwanted pregnancies – from National Right to Life to Planned Parenthood – those of us who believe in the sanctity of pre-born life absolutely oppose the termination of unwanted pregnancies by means of abortion.

That’s why it doesn’t matter  that, say, Planned Parenthood, which attended the London Family Planning Summit at which Mrs. Gates formally announced her campaign,  provides a range of women’s health services, including breast exams, pap tests and tests for sexually-transmitted diseases.

That is negated by the fact that America’s leading abortion provider is responsible for the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of unborn babies each year.

By the same coin, the Gates Foundation’s desire to save lives in the Third World, by helping women to avoid prevent unwanted pregnancies, is well and good.

But not if its “family planning” program leads to increased sexual promiscuity among unmarried woman. And not if it “empowers” Third World women while depriving the unborn of their God-given right to life.

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Why Americans Don’t Think Obama is a Christian

June 25, 2012 By 4 Comments

OBAMA CLAIMS TO BE A CHRISTIAN, BUT HIS POLICIES ARE THOSE OF A ‘RAVENOUS WOLF.’

President Obama proclaims himself a Christian. But two-thirds of Americans either don’t know it or don’t believe it, according to a new Gallup poll.

I count myself among those who don’t believe it. And not just because the president has managed to attend Sunday church services not even a tenth as many times as he has stolen away from the White House to play golf.

The Scripture warns us to beware of those “who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.You will know them by their fruits.”

I believe, as do many evangelical Christians, that Obama is such a ravenous wolf. And the fruits of his presidency bear witness.

On Obama’s watch, more than three and a half million abortions have been performed in this country. Yet, the professed Christian has done absolutely nothing to stop – or even reduce – the ungodly slaughter of the unborn.

That’s because Obama has cast his lot with the nation’s abortionists. “I am pro-choice,” he has declared. He also has stated, “I believe in Roe v. Wade,” the 39-year-old Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand, that denied the humanity of the unborn.

Meanwhile, Obama has so ingratiated himself to the homosexual community that Newsweek magazine admiringly proclaimed him America’s “first gay president.”

He earned that dubious title by repealing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, ordering his Justice Department not to defend in court the federal “Defense of Marriage” law, and, most recently, coming out in favor of same-sex marriage.

What particularly offended about Obama’s endorsement of same sex marriage is that he dared to suggest that Christ would bless such unholy unions, even though Scripture declares it nothing less than “an abomination” for man to lie with man.

Then there was the Obama administration’s argument before the Supreme Court that church employees can claim workplace discrimination when they are fired because their beliefs or conduct are contrary to tenets of their faith-based employer.

Even Obama’s appointees to the High Court, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, agreed that the administration’s position amounted to an attack upon religious freedom. That’s why they joined their fellow justices in a unanimous ruling against Obama’s imps.

Finally, there’s the provision of the Obamacare law that requires churches and faith-based employers to not only provide, but also pay for contraceptive for their workers – no matter whether they were married or single.

The controversy went supernova when the president’s Democrat allies in Congress held a hearing at which Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, who turned out to be a radical feminist activist, made the case for why religious institutions should not be exempt from the contraceptive mandate.

When Fluke was taken to task by radio host Rush Limbaugh, who wondered why a single woman like Fluke would need birth control unless she was sleeping around, Obama  came to her defense.

That’s because she was doing the president’s bidding, furthering his secularist agenda to force religious institutions to be conformed to this morally fallen world, which bombards young women and men with the message that there’s nothing wrong with sexual promiscuity as long as they use “protection.”

Such are the fruits of the Obama presidency. Little wonder that two-thirds of Americans do not identify him as Christian.

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Sandra Fluke’s 15 Minutes of Notoriety

March 3, 2012 By 1 Comment

I’ve been following the Sandra Fluke Sur-Reality Show this week.

GEORGETOWN LAW STUDENT SAYS SHE AND HER CLASSMATES NEED TAXPAYER-FUNDED CONTRACEPTIVES.

First, the Georgetown“co-ed” appeared at a congressional hearing. She testified that she and her female classmates not only need contraceptives, they need them paid for by the taxpayers.

Then, Rush Limbaugh weighed in on Fluke’s testimony, indelicately characterizing her as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

Then, Fluke went on NBC’s “The Today Show” to express her outrage at the conservative talk show host’s name-calling.

And, oh yes, she disclosed that she was not, in fact, the 23-year-old ingénue portrayed in fawning news accounts, but a 30-year-old aspiring barrister who previously served as president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice.

Then, President Obama himself dropped Fluke a line to make sure she was doing okay after being verbally battered by Rush.

He also wanted her to know her parents should be proud that she is such an exceptional, youngish spokeswoman for taxpayer-funded birth control on demand.

With all the twists and turns in Fluke’s story – how she got seven year older in a week, how Rush made her a cause celebre among liberal Democrats, how she became Obama’s new BFF – hardly any news reports have noted the most remarkable aspect of her congressional testimony:

The Georgetown law student mentioned several female classmates, and female students at other schools, who need contraceptives, but can’t afford to pay for them. Those women need taxpayer-funded birth control not because they sleep around, according to Fluke. But, supposedly, to address health issues that have nothing to do with sex.

She mentions a 32-year-old lesbian friend of hers at Georgetown who has polycystic ovarian syndrome and “has to take prescription birth control,” she said, to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries.

“Perhaps you think my friend’s tragic story is rare,” Fluke told lawmakers. “It’s not.”

She mentioned a woman who told her doctors believe she has endometriosis. But it can’t be proven without surgery so her insurance carrier is unwilling to cover her birth control meds.

And she mentioned yet another “friend” with polycystic ovarian syndrome (there must be some sort of epidemic on the Georgetown campus). The woman “is struggling to pay” for her birth control meds, said Fluke, and is “terrified to not have access to it.”

Much of the mainstream media blithely accepted the Georgetown law student’s testimony with no skepticism whatsoever.

But the fact is that the overwhelming majority of women in this country who use prescription birth control do so not to treat some medical condition like polycystic ovarian or endometriosis, but to prevent pregnancy.

Of course, sexual abstinence is the very best way for unmarried women like Fluke, like most of her Georgetown classmates, to avoid pregnancy, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

However, if they insist on promiscuous sex, if they need birth control to prevent them from getting pregnant, they should pay for their contraceptives themselves.

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