It's an inconvenience. If it wasn't a child it wouldn't have to be killed.
Birth control doesn't work. According to a Planned Parenthood study 47.5% of girls on the pill living w/ their boyfriends under 20 yrs. of age (and poor) will get pregnant w/in one year. If they're using a condom over 70% will get pregnant within a year. Older women skew the statistics, by contrast, the middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 6% chance of pregnancy after a year of condom use. We all know the perfect usage rates, but who looks up the failure rates? The overall failure rate is 12.9%, meaning that 13 out of a hundred sexually active, contracepting women will be pregnant within 12 months. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/...
According to Marie Stopes International (UK version of PP) 21% of unplanned pregnancies happened to couples using more than one method of contraception. http://www.mariestopes.com.au/news1/medi...
“The World Health Organisation states that even if couples use contraception correctly 100% of the time, there would be close to 6 million unplanned pregnancies each year,” Ms Calcutt said.
From Consumer Reports study on condoms: If you obtain condoms from Planned Parenthood, avoid the low-rated scented Honeydew and Assorted Colors varieties. Instead, choose the Lollipop, a brightly colored condom packaged on a stick. We rated it excellent overall." (Compared to the other two which came in dead last) http://www.condomdepot.com/reviews/magaz...
Women might make different "choices" if they were given all of the information. "In fact, a recent article reported that a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region said that “emphasizing condom failure rates confuses adolescents." http://www.stopp.org/wsr070711.htm
Vreelanda, That same Constitution protected those innocent and defenseless "unborn" up until 1973.
Abortion hurts women too. http://www.ldi.org/Pro-life_Group/Pro-ch... Click here to visit The Blackmun Wall The Blackmun Wall is a listing of the women killed by legal abortions, along with information regarding the circumstances of their death. We named this project after Harry Blackmun. Justice Blackmun was the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion and launched America's Holocaust.
I went to a large school (over 400 in my class) and larger does not mean better. In 1930 we had 119,000 school districts, today less than 15,000. Children used to grow up with mentors and neighbors they were accountable to, now they are just a number seeking their peers for guidance.
Unfortunately, larger schools teach kids to hate learning if they are smart enough to be bored when the teacher is teaching to the least common denominator.
The little red school house is looking better and better. Get rid of the fed. gov't oversight, get rid of the teacher's unions and let the teachers and parents control what education their own children receive.
Since that isn't about to happen anytime soon, the closest one can come to the little red school house is to homeschool. It's a growing movement.
Rayz, Thanks for the response. I too have been looking at NARTH extensively. However, what I have been discovering is that those who criticize it are usually on the opposing viewpoint. I have challenged homosexual activists to refute the scientific info that is found on NARTH and so far, none have come to the plate. They will criticize NARTH for being Christian, and they will criticize the two people I mentioned, but they can't refute the evidence. I would never want to advocate a site if it was outdated or purposely misleading.
The truth of the matter is, the APA has been influenced by homosexual activists. There is also a letter on NARTH to the American Medical Association addressing some fallacies that they continue to mislead people with... http://www.narth.com/docs/press7.html
As a pro-lifer, I am already well aware that scientists, including mainstream medical organizations can be easily mislead or activists themselves, so the fact that mainstream organizations criticize NARTH means nothing to me. I can see the incredible bias on many issues, especially as a Communications major myself.
Yes, there do appear to be a couple of psychiatrists from NARTH that seem to put their foot in their mouth, but what is on their website so far as I have seen, is solid. There are also a couple of references to Dr. Paul Cameron that I'm looking into for being a controversial researcher. He has made some incriminating statements regarding homosexuality, but I saw that NARTH did cite him as being controversial in one article.
Please don't judge a book by what it's opponents say. You can't ask a democrat what a republican stands for. Look at it for yourself. You will see that their info is current.
NARTH also provides at least one study where research done in more accepting countries such as Netherlands and New Zealand show that the medical and psychological negatives associated with homosexuality are consistent with ours, therefore our society cannot be blamed for their disproportionate numbers.
TEN THINGS GAY MEN SHOULD DISCUSS WITH THEIR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
1. HIV/AIDS, Safe Sex That men who have sex with men are at an increased risk of HIV infection is well known, but the effectiveness of safe sex in reducing the rate of HIV infection is one of the gay community’s great success stories. However, the last few years have seen the return of many unsafe sex practices. While effective HIV treatments may be on the horizon, there is no substitute for preventing infection. Safe sex is proven to reduce the risk of receiving or transmitting HIV. All health care professionals should be aware of how to counsel and support maintenance of safe sex practices.
2. Substance Use Gay men use substances at a higher rate than the general population, and not just in larger communities such as New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. These include a number of substances ranging from amyl nitrate ("poppers"), to marijuana, Ecstasy, and amphetamines. The long-term effects of many of these substances are unknown; however current wisdom suggests potentially serious consequences as we age.
3. Depression/Anxiety Depression and anxiety appear to affect gay men at a higher rate than in the general population. The likelihood of depression or anxiety may be greater, and the problem may be more severe for those men who remain in the closet or who do not have adequate social supports. Adolescents and young adults may be at particularly high risk of suicide because of these concerns. Culturally sensitive mental health services targeted specifically at gay men may be more effective in the prevention, early detection, and treatment of these conditions.
Ray, According to "Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm", Edited by Rogers H. Wright and Nicolas A. Cummings, 2005. New York: Routledge,"The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association yielded suddenly and completely to political pressure when in 1973 it removed homosexuality as a treatable aberrant condition. A political firestorm had been created by gay activists within psychiatry, with intense opposition to normalizing homosexuality coming from a few outspoken psychiatrists who were demonized and even threatened, rather than scientifically refuted. Psychiatry's House of Delegates sidestepped the conflict by putting the matter to a vote of the membership, marking the first time in the history of healthcare that a diagnosis or lack of diagnosis was decided by popular vote rather than scientific evidence (p. 9).
The authors do not complain about what was done, but rather, how it was done. The co-author (Cummings) of the chapter not only agrees with the outcome, but in 1974 introduced the successful resolution declaring that homosexuality was not a psychiatric condition. However, the resolution carried with it a "proscription that appropriate and needed research would be conducted to substantiate these decisions." Cummings "watched with dismay as there was no effort on the part of APA to promote or even encourage such required research" (p. 9).
So much for the APA. By the way, Wright and Cummings describe themselves as 'liberal'.
I noticed you did not address the individual scientists that I quoted stating that homosexuality is not genetic, you just criticized NARTH. That's telling.
Regarding change and the right to treatment, lesbian activist Camille Paglia offered the following observations:
"Homosexuality is not 'normal.' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction...No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous...homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait.....
"Is the gay identity so fragile that it cannot bear the thought that some people may not wish to be gay? Sexuality is highly fluid, and reversals are theoretically possible. However, habit is refractory, once the sensory pathways have been blazed and deepened by repetition-a phenomenon obvious in the struggle with obesity, smoking, alcoholism or drug addiction....helping gays to learn to function heterosexually, if they wish, is a perfectly worthy aim.
"We should be honest enough to consider whether homosexuality may not indeed be a pause a the prepubescent stage where children anxiously band together by gender....current gay cant insists that homosexuality is 'not a choice,' that no one would choose to be gay in a homophobic society. But there is an element of choice in all behavior, sexual or otherwise. It takes an effort to deal with the opposite sex; it is safer with your own kind. The issue is one of challenge versus comfort." (Paglia, 1994, pp. 70, 72, 76, 77, 78, 91).
...Simon LeVay, in his study of the hypothalamic differences between the brains of homosexual and heterosexual men, offered the following criticisms of his own research:
"It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.
Prominent research teams Byne and Parsons, and also Friedman and Downey, each concluded that there was no evidence to support a biologic theory, but rather that homosexuality could be best explained by an alternative model where "temperamental and personality traits interact with the familial and social milieu as the individual's sexuality emerges" (Byne and Parsons, 1993; Friedman and Downey, 1993).
An article in the Monitor on Psychology reviewed the research of Dr. Lisa Diamond, a professor at the University of Utah and concluded that "Sexual identity is far from fixed in women who aren't exclusively heterosexual"(Murray, 2000, p. 15; Diamond, 2000).
What is more intriguing is the research of Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, the prominent psychiatrist and researcher at Columbia University. Dr. Spitzer was the architect of the 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from the diagnostic manual, a gay affirmative psychiatrist , and a long time supporter of gay rights. His current study focused on whether or not individuals can change. His preliminary conclusions are:
"I am convinced from the people I have interviewed, that for many of them, they have made substantial changes toward becoming heterosexual...I think that's news...I came to this study skeptical. I now claim that these changes can be sustained"(NARTH, 2001).
Posted on July 9 at 1:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It's an inconvenience. If it wasn't a child it wouldn't have to be killed.
Birth control doesn't work. According to a Planned Parenthood study 47.5% of girls on the pill living w/ their boyfriends under 20 yrs. of age (and poor) will get pregnant w/in one year. If they're using a condom over 70% will get pregnant within a year. Older women skew the statistics, by contrast, the middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 6% chance of pregnancy after a year of condom use.
We all know the perfect usage rates, but who looks up the failure rates? The overall failure rate is 12.9%, meaning that 13 out of a hundred sexually active, contracepting women will be pregnant within 12 months.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/...
According to Marie Stopes International (UK version of PP) 21% of unplanned pregnancies happened to couples using more than one method of contraception.
http://www.mariestopes.com.au/news1/medi...
“The World Health Organisation states that even if couples use contraception correctly 100% of the time, there would be close to 6 million unplanned pregnancies each year,” Ms Calcutt said.
From Consumer Reports study on condoms: If you obtain condoms from Planned Parenthood, avoid the low-rated scented Honeydew and Assorted Colors varieties. Instead, choose the Lollipop, a brightly colored condom packaged on a stick. We rated it excellent overall."
(Compared to the other two which came in dead last)
http://www.condomdepot.com/reviews/magaz...
Women might make different "choices" if they were given all of the information.
"In fact, a recent article reported that a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region said that “emphasizing condom failure rates confuses adolescents."
http://www.stopp.org/wsr070711.htm
On Online Letters to the Editor for July 7