I’m very sorry about your three miscarriages. From other women I know, it can be a very sad experience. In all sincerity, I was wondering how they were able to determine that there wasn’t a heartbeat.

From American Life League…

Can contraception cause an early abortion?

The pill, Norplant, Depo-Provera, emergency contraception, the IUD - all of these chemical contraceptives have three basic modes of operation:

1. They can act to suppress ovulation (the release of an egg from the ovary). However, women can and do experience breakthrough ovulation, meaning that an egg is released and available to be fertilized.

2. They can cause the cervical mucus to thicken, making it difficult for the sperm to reach the egg. It is possible, though, for the sperm to break through the mucus and to fertilize the egg.

3. They can alter the lining of the uterus making it difficult, if not impossible, for the 7-9 day old developing baby to attach to the uterine lining, where it would receive the nourishment necessary for further development. The baby would then be expelled from the body during menstruation. This process is known as a chemical abortion and is why the pill is referred to as an abortifacient.

Sources:

1999 Physicians Desk Reference
Planned Parenthood
A Consumer’s Guide to the Pill and other Drugs, by John Wilks, B. Pharm., M.P.S.

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Do Condoms Protect From Aids?

Mike

In that case you shouldn’t have the slightest bit of difficulty pointing to a source for this claim. Just one, if you please.

But look—no doubt some conceptions go awry for one reason or another, and possibly no human life was ever really present in such a case. But it does not follow, from that, that—when conception and development do not go awry—human life did not begin then, at that moment of conception.

By the way, if not at the moment of conception, at what point do “most scientists” say human life begins?

(You might also ask the prior question, what constitutes a distinct living organism, a topic discissed fascinatingly here and here by neurobiology professor Maureen Condic; see also this by bioethicist William Saunders.)

False dilemma:

Teach them that sex is dirty, sexual desire is naughty, masturbators are damned to hell, and fornicators are damned even deeper into hell.

—or—

Teach them how to use condoms, that masturbation is healthy, that sex is all about personal decisions and “self-respect”

Those aren’t our only choices, Jim—to shame them or to teach them what amounts to, despite all the platitudes about “good choices” and “self respect”, sexual license.

I’ve got more than a little experience with this, having once been a teenage boy—ill served by the scant “sex-ed” at school—and having now two teenage sons of my own.

I have talked very frankly indeed with my sons about sexuality. I have begun with the beauty of sexuality, its defining place in our lives and awesome power to foster those intimate ties that are at the core of marriage and family. I have spoken of the “gift of self” expressed sexually through the language of the body, and how being men enables them to make this gift to a woman, and gratefully to receive the gift that she has to offer.

I have also spoken to them about the ways that the sincerity of the gift of one’s self expressed sexually through the body can be undermined. So, yes, I have explained to them that masturbation is a sin—but these are boys who, even at their age, have a more nuanced notion of sin than the caricature under which you appear to be laboring.

The channels of communication with my boys are wide open. They trust me and they know that I trust them. Our actual experience bears no resemblance to the straw man you describe—which, by the way, were it not so laughable, would actually be rather insulting.

EVERY embryologist knows for a fact that human life BEGINS at conception/fertilization.

The January 1979 Playboy bragged that, “The Playboy Foundation provide[d] the first of several major grants to the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States to support its nationwide educational programs.” Christie Hefner gushed that Playboy gave the original seed money for SIECUS.

Since its inception, the Playboy Foundation has contributed more than $14 million through grants, matching gifts and in-kind donations. This year [2000], the Playboy Foundation awarded more than $600,000 in grants to organizations devoted to reproductive rights, civil rights and civil liberties such as the National Abortion Reproductive Rights Action League, Southern
Center for Human Rights and Student Press Law Center. In addition, the Playboy Foundation donated more than one million dollars in public service advertisements in Playboy magazine for such organizations as People for the American Way….

Christie Hefner….has used her influence and resources to work for equal rights and opportunities for women, serving on the board of the National Women’s Political Caucus, and then being instrumental in the founding of three powerful women’s organizations: EMILY’s List, which raises money for pro-choice, Democratic women political candidates;

The inside back cover of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project 1981 publication “Women’s Guide to Reproductive Rights” proclaims “Printing donated by the Playboy Foundation.”

Additionally, your statement “unless you can say with certainty that none of your students will get pregnant because they learned so much in sex ed.” is also flawed. I could use the exact same argument and say “unless you can say with certainty that none of your students who learned nothing about sex will not get pregnant…” There’s no point in making broad statements like that, they don’t further anyone’s point.

If parents don’t want their kids learning about sex ed in school or from tv or videogames or the internet or friends or Hustler or Swank or from a rest stop bathroom wall, then they need to TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT. They need to be able to sit down at the table and answer every question their child asks them. They need to be able to talk about oral sex, sperm, masturbation, homosexuality. They need to be honest about it. Talk about self-respect and making sound decisions, and how one moment can change your life forever. Talk about how sex is tempting and enjoyable, but that doesn’t mean they should do it.

The more topics are avoided or shame-based, the more likely your child is going to run towards it. Make sex bad and dirty; tell them it is awful — I promise you that won’t work. Use words like sin and abomination and shame; make them hate themselves for masturbating or feeling certain feelings, that should do wonders for how they feel about themselves.

What happens when you do things like that, sweep sex under the rug? You end up in the same sort of predicament that numerous Archdiocese now find themselves in, facing hundreds of lawsuits teetering on the brink of bankruptcy because of pedophile sex scandals that the Church decided to keep quiet. Secrecy and shame and guilt are fine in very small, measured doses; but when doled out as the method of birth control or as a means to an end, they are dangerous and vile.

That’s simply not true. Pro-aborts were always saying that they would like science to prove that life begins at conception. Well they established that a blastocyst has a set of DNA not any different than an adult. Why else would they want to use the stem cells? Then the pro-aborts turn around and pull a Clinton saying “well, what exactly does life mean”, and pull out the quality of life card. Young Christian Woman’s questions make sense because if you are going to give out information you should give out all the facts unless you can say with certainty that none of your students will get pregnant because they learned so much in sex ed. I’m wondering, are parents still given the choice to not have their kids take that class?

Those are sort of a loaded questions for you to ask me. Do you talk to your friends about how it’s okay to masturbate or have oral sex? No, you probably don’t because you believe things like that are wrong.

Your questions are similar. Most scientist do not agree that human life begins at conception, that is one of the largest problems in establishing abortion bans. (So asking me such questions is pretty pointless) However every scientist, 100% of them in fact, agree that masturbation will not result in pregnancy…

As for what I tell my students, I tell the boys not to do anything that they wouldn’t want someone doing to their sister or mother; and I tell the girls they should behave in a way where they couldn’t discuss it with their grandmother.

Do you inform students what really happens in an abortion? What the fetal human looks like and what his or her body is like at eight weeks? How that baby has arms and legs and a beating heart, when he or she is sliced up and sucked out? How the so-called doctor will rip off a baby’s arms and legs head and pull out the parts one at a time, or stick scissors in the back of his or her head and suck out his or her brain? Or do you think that they should be told that it is just a mass of tissue?