Science > Abortion > Teen birth rate report fixed to slam abstinence, analyst says
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10 Dec 2007 09:26:12 PM |
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Teen birth rate report fixed to slam abstinence, analyst says |
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are no substitutes for good
morals, virtue, and decency.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/12/teen_birth_rate_report_fixed_t.php
Teen birth rate report fixed to slam abstinence, analyst says
Jeff Johnson
OneNewsNow.com
December 6, 2007
A pro-family leader is charging the federal government with misrepresenting
teen birth rate statistics in order to cut funding for abstinence-only sex
education and transfer the funding to so-called "comprehensive" sex
education programs.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report this week indicating a
slight increase in teen birth rates for the first time in 14 years. Though
the rate had dropped consistently since 1991, government statisticians
claimed a three-percent increase in births in 15- to 19-year-olds from 2005
to 2006. Co-author of the report, CDC's Stephanie Ventura, said the
findings, "took us by surprise."
But Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse -- senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute
of Concerned Women for America -- disputes those findings, saying the claims
are misleading at best. "What they have done," Crouse argues, "is lump
together 15- to 19-year-olds, because the 18- to 19-year-old rate did edge
up just slightly."
Crouse says the numbers for 10- to 17-year-olds actually continue on their
downward trend, which indicates that abstinence education is showing
positive results. And that, she says, is the reason for the misleading
government report.
The misleading "bundling" of the statistics is an obvious attack on
abstinence education, she says, and an attempt to get more federal funding
for condom distribution and abortion providers. "You can bet this is data
that will be used to say, 'Abstinence programs do not work,'" she says.
Crouse blames the report on abortion supporters who are willing to distort
the facts to get federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other abortion
providers.
"Copyright 2007 American Family News Network - Used by permission."
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J Young
jyoungvisions@aol.com
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| User: "Eris" |
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10 Dec 2007 09:44:30 PM |
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"Copyright 2007 American Family News Network - Used by permission."
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J Young
jyoungvisi...@aol.com
Battle Creek, Mi discontinued teaching abstinence only after a sharp
increase in unwed mothers after
implementing the program. This was done at the local level using their
own statistics, why would they
discontinue it if it was working?
I wonder what Crouse's PhD is in.
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| User: "Lord Calvert" |
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10 Dec 2007 10:04:42 PM |
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On Dec 10, 10:44 pm, Eris <vith...@gmail.com> wrote:
"Copyright 2007 American Family News Network - Used by permission."
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J Young
jyoungvisi...@aol.com
Battle Creek, Mi discontinued teaching abstinence only after a sharp
increase in unwed mothers after
implementing the program. This was done at the local level using their
own statistics, why would they
discontinue it if it was working?
I wonder what Crouse's PhD is in.
Even her own webpage doesn't tell us and a quick websearch using her
name and "PhD" or "doctorate" can find no reference to where she
obtained any of her degrees.
http://gideon.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2112&department=CWA&categoryid=
Given that she is a former Bush speechwriter and a director of a PR
firm as well as a former professor and debate coach at Ball State and
Asbury College (a small Wesleyan college in Kentucky, the same one
that gave us Rep. Joe Pitts, Bush's liaison to the Religious Right and
who was going to speak at the National Reform Association's convention
in Ephrata, PA, until it became known that they supported the murder
of disobedient children by stoning and who lied about supporting term
limits when it came time to run for reelection himself), I would
strongly speculate that her doctorate is in some sort of communication
field and not in any scientific discipline that would help qualify her
as a credible expert in these matters. In other words, she's a
professional political and media hack.
Rich Goranson
Amherst, NY, USA
aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1
EAC Department of Cruel and Unusual Choreography
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| User: "Geoff" |
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11 Dec 2007 08:39:50 AM |
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Lord Calvert wrote:
I wonder what Crouse's PhD is in.
I would
strongly speculate that her doctorate is in some sort of communication
field and not in any scientific discipline that would help qualify her
as a credible expert in these matters.
I'll see your communications PhD and raise it one theology.
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| User: "James Burns" |
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11 Dec 2007 08:59:32 AM |
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Geoff wrote:
Lord Calvert wrote:
I wonder what Crouse's PhD is in.
I would
strongly speculate that her doctorate is in some sort of communication
field and not in any scientific discipline that would help qualify her
as a credible expert in these matters.
I'll see your communications PhD and raise it one theology.
I would say you're both right. PhD in Communications; she got
her bachelor's at Asbury College (motto: Academic Excellence &
Spiritual Vitality).
Jim Burns
http://www.calvertinstitute.org/main/experts_detail.php?sourcebook_id=42
; Calvert Experts - Sourcebook
; [...]
; Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse
; [...]
; Academic Background
; A.B.: Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky (English/Speech).
; M.A.: Purdue University (Rhetoric, Public Address, Radio, Television).
; Ph.D.: State University of New York at Buffalo (Communication Theory).
http://www.asbury.edu/aboutus/profile/mission
: The mission of Asbury College, as a Christian Liberal Arts
: College in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, is to equip men
: and women, through a commitment to academic excellence and
: spiritual vitality, for a lifetime of learning, leadership and
: service to the professions, society, the family and the Church,
: thereby preparing them to engage their cultures and advance the
: cause of Christ around the world.
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| User: "Lord Calvert" |
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11 Dec 2007 09:25:42 AM |
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On Dec 11, 9:59 am, James Burns <burns...@osu.edu> wrote:
Geoff wrote:
Lord Calvert wrote:
I wonder what Crouse's PhD is in.
I would
strongly speculate that her doctorate is in some sort of communication
field and not in any scientific discipline that would help qualify her
as a credible expert in these matters.
I'll see your communications PhD and raise it one theology.
I would say you're both right. PhD in Communications; she got
her bachelor's at Asbury College (motto: Academic Excellence &
Spiritual Vitality).
Jim Burns
http://www.calvertinstitute.org/main/experts_detail.php?sourcebook_id=42
; Calvert Experts - Sourcebook
; [...]
; Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse
; [...]
; Academic Background
; A.B.: Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky (English/Speech).
; M.A.: Purdue University (Rhetoric, Public Address, Radio, Television).
; Ph.D.: State University of New York at Buffalo (Communication Theory).
She got her PhD at *my* Alma Mater???
I am so ashamed.
Rich Goranson
Amherst, NY, USA
aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1
EAC Department of Cruel and Unusual Choreography
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| User: "Geoff" |
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11 Dec 2007 11:15:25 AM |
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Lord Calvert wrote:
Ph.D.: State University of New York at Buffalo
(Communication Theory).
She got her PhD at *my* Alma Mater???
I am so ashamed.
Egad! I only took calculus there during high school and I'm ashamed. You
should be appalled and ask the regents to review her thesis!
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| User: "JohnN" |
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11 Dec 2007 10:22:37 AM |
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On Dec 10, 10:44 pm, Eris <vith...@gmail.com> wrote:
"Copyright 2007 American Family News Network - Used by permission."
--
J Young
jyoungvisi...@aol.com
Battle Creek, Mi discontinued teaching abstinence only after a sharp
increase in unwed mothers after
implementing the program. This was done at the local level using their
own statistics, why would they
discontinue it if it was working?
I wonder what Crouse's PhD is in.
She wrote this thesis in 1979 for the State University of New York at
Buffalo. The catalog record does not mention the field, perhaps
political science or communications.
The Carter-Ford campaign debates, 1976 : the images and issues in
political persuasion
Janice Shaw Crouse
JohnN
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| User: "LC" |
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10 Dec 2007 09:38:53 PM |
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Abstinent save for his porn collection, "J Young" <jyoungvisions@aol.com>
wrote in message news:1fhlp3.7ng.19.1@news.alt.net...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are no substitutes for
good morals, virtue, and decency.
Which is why you're so uniformly regarded as a raving hypocrite.
<snip>
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report this week indicating
a slight increase in teen birth rates for the first time in 14 years.
Though the rate had dropped consistently since 1991, government
statisticians claimed a three-percent increase in births in 15- to
19-year-olds from 2005 to 2006. Co-author of the report, CDC's Stephanie
Ventura, said the findings, "took us by surprise."
But Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse -- senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye
Institute of Concerned Women for America --
The "Beverly LaHaye Institute of Concerned Women for America"?
<insert madcap laugh here>
You're a real hoot, troll.
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| User: "Geoff" |
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11 Dec 2007 08:33:24 AM |
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LC wrote:
Abstinent save for his porn collection, "J Young"
<jyoungvisions@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1fhlp3.7ng.19.1@news.alt.net...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are no substitutes
for good morals, virtue, and decency.
Which is why you're so uniformly regarded as a raving hypocrite.
<snip>
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report this week
indicating a slight increase in teen birth rates for the first time
in 14 years. Though the rate had dropped consistently since 1991,
government statisticians claimed a three-percent increase in births
in 15- to 19-year-olds from 2005 to 2006. Co-author of the report,
CDC's Stephanie Ventura, said the findings, "took us by surprise."
But Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse -- senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye
Institute of Concerned Women for America --
The "Beverly LaHaye Institute of Concerned Women for America"?
<insert madcap laugh here>
You're a real hoot, troll.
No *****. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out from whom this
***** got her last name.
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| User: "LC" |
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11 Dec 2007 10:10:44 AM |
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"Geoff" <gebobs@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:6I-dnbSjZ-MqAsPanZ2dnUVZ_s6mnZ2d@giganews.com...
LC wrote:
Abstinent save for his porn collection, "J Young"
<jyoungvisions@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1fhlp3.7ng.19.1@news.alt.net...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are no substitutes
for good morals, virtue, and decency.
Which is why you're so uniformly regarded as a raving hypocrite.
<snip>
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report this week
indicating a slight increase in teen birth rates for the first time
in 14 years. Though the rate had dropped consistently since 1991,
government statisticians claimed a three-percent increase in births
in 15- to 19-year-olds from 2005 to 2006. Co-author of the report,
CDC's Stephanie Ventura, said the findings, "took us by surprise."
But Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse -- senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye
Institute of Concerned Women for America --
The "Beverly LaHaye Institute of Concerned Women for America"?
<insert madcap laugh here>
You're a real hoot, troll.
No *****. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out from whom this
***** got her last name.
Little wonder IBen quotes her: he got 'left behind' when they handed out
critical thinking skills.
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11 Dec 2007 12:56:23 AM |
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On 11 d=E9c, 04:26, "J Young" <jyoungvisi...@aol.com> wrote:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are no substitutes for go=
od
morals, virtue, and decency.
What has "having a normal sex life" to do with "decency"?
Oh... that's right... You DON'T have a normal sex life... let alone a
normal life...
As for morals, virtue and decency, what are you waiting to put yuor
money where you fucking mouth is? Do you consider intolerance, racism,
antisemitism, homophobia and holocaust denying "moral, virtuous and
decent"?
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/12/teen_birth_rate_report_fixed_t.php
Wanna be taken seriously, moron? Use serious sources.
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| User: "Eris" |
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10 Dec 2007 09:45:52 PM |
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On Dec 10, 10:26 pm, "J Young" <jyoungvisi...@aol.com> wrote:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are no substitutes for good
morals, virtue, and decency.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/12/teen_birth_rate_report_fixed_t.php
Teen birth rate report fixed to slam abstinence, analyst says
Jeff Johnson
OneNewsNow.com
December 6, 2007
A pro-family leader is charging the federal government with misrepresenting
teen birth rate statistics in order to cut funding for abstinence-only sex
education and transfer the funding to so-called "comprehensive" sex
education programs.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report this week indicating a
slight increase in teen birth rates for the first time in 14 years. Though
the rate had dropped consistently since 1991, government statisticians
claimed a three-percent increase in births in 15- to 19-year-olds from 2005
to 2006. Co-author of the report, CDC's Stephanie Ventura, said the
findings, "took us by surprise."
But Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse -- senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute
of Concerned Women for America -- disputes those findings, saying the claims
are misleading at best. "What they have done," Crouse argues, "is lump
together 15- to 19-year-olds, because the 18- to 19-year-old rate did edge
up just slightly."
Crouse says the numbers for 10- to 17-year-olds actually continue on their
downward trend, which indicates that abstinence education is showing
positive results. And that, she says, is the reason for the misleading
government report.
The misleading "bundling" of the statistics is an obvious attack on
abstinence education, she says, and an attempt to get more federal funding
for condom distribution and abortion providers. "You can bet this is data
that will be used to say, 'Abstinence programs do not work,'" she says.
Crouse blames the report on abortion supporters who are willing to distort
the facts to get federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other abortion
providers.
"Copyright 2007 American Family News Network - Used by permission."
--
J Young
jyoungvisi...@aol.com
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11 Dec 2007 10:15:47 AM |
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On Dec 10, 10:26 pm, "J Young" <jyoungvisi...@aol.com> wrote:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are no substitutes for good
morals, virtue, and decency.
Other than the fact that you lack these characteristics, what do you
know about "good morals, virtue and deceny"?
<snip>
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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11 Dec 2007 09:58:54 AM |
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:26:12 -0500, J Young wrote:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are no substitutes for
good morals, virtue, and decency.
For target practice we can only assume much as you hate the concepts.
But, here we go, reality doesn't fit what the religious want so it's all
a Big Conspiracy!
Fruitcakes.
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do
penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ”
- H. L. Mencken
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