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Conservative Christian Family Doctor, promoting conservative news and views. (Hot Air under the right wing!)
bnuckols has written 1642 posts for LifeEthics

Texas teens form pro-life club

And, it seems that the kids in Coppell, Texas (near Dallas) are only “anti-abortion” because of the undue influence of their families and churches. From the Dallas Morning News: Abortion rights advocates say it’s even harder for them to organize high school students because of the focus on abstinence. “We’re up against a movement that … Continue reading

Baroness Warnock: doctors who won’t kill are wicked.

Baroness Warnock took part in a debate in Belfast, Ireland on January 5, 2008. According to a Belfast news report, the Baroness said that doctors who will not kill their patients are “genuinely wicked.” Baroness Warnock, who last year caused worldwide controversy when she said that some dementia patients had a “duty” to seek death, … Continue reading

Teen Pregnancy Rates Increase at Same Rate as Others

It seems that everyone decided to have more babies in 2006, including teen girls from age 15 through 19. The summary of the CDC report is available as a news release, here. A 100-page report is available pdf containing more numbers and breakdown of the data is at this link. I don’t believe that the … Continue reading

Virginity pledges: the rest of the story

The “kids” aren’t “kids” and they aren’t “teens.” And they wait 3 years longer than their peers and no one knows if they even had a sex ed course in school. Fox News reports on their interview with the author of a report on teens who take virginity pledges. She told them that religious teens … Continue reading

>Virginity pledges: the rest of the story

>The “kids” aren’t “kids” and they aren’t “teens.” And they wait 3 years longer than their peers and no one knows if they even had a sex ed course in school. Fox News reports on their interview with the author of a report on teens who take virginity pledges. She told them that religious teens … Continue reading

New study on virginity pledges and behavior

The article in question can be downloaded from Pediatrics, here. The final “wave 3” data came from the group that the author calls “adolescents” — who were 22 years old. Data from those who had married was treated as “missing.” We don’t know anything about the actual sex ed courses that the students took, who … Continue reading

Abstinence vs “plus”

The Texas Legislature is about to reconvene and the sex ed debate in our State is already in the news. (Free subscription required.) Unfortunately, the news article blurs the line between sex ed for all children in our schools and the problem that some of our girls have multiple pregnancies as teenagers. What little evidence … Continue reading

Top 50 Medical Blogs list

We made number 12, under Bioethics. The list appears to be a good resource – just come back here when you’re done surfing the others! Spelling corrected 1/6/09

>Top 50 Medical Blogs list

>We made number 12, under Bioethics. The list appears to be a good resource – just come back here when you’re done surfing the others! Spelling corrected 1/6/09

Health care reform conversation

There’s a comment from a proponent of single payor health care payments on one of my November posts. A few points need to be clarified: The numbers about infant mortality are skewed in the US because we count more infants as “live births” than other countries. We use Medicaid money to finance special education and … Continue reading

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