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...abstinence-only strings attached, resulting in a prevention program that has abandoned an effective and proven strategy that incorporated condom use. Tragically, the decade-long decline in hiv prevalence has reversed itself, and new infections are again on the rise in Uganda. Steven W. Sinding, Director-General International Planned Parenthood Federation London...
...order to evaluate whether the death of those trees was worthwhile, the question begs to be asked: does information provided in the student planner actually affect Harvard students’ decisions regarding parenthood planning or (as is probably the case) prevention? “We will have to defer the answers to the efficacy question until we evaluate it later in the academic year,” Ballinger says...
...written articles on the subject of abortion. Sen. Diane Feinstein tried yet another approach, philosophically asking whether the right of privacy applies to the beginning and end of life. Roberts again deflected. She then asked whether he agreed with the ruling in a 1992 abortion case, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, in which the majority specifically declined to overrule Roe. He replied only that the Casey decision was "a precedent on a precedent." Maybe that makes it one of Specter's "super-duper precedents," but it was hard to read much into the horizontal crease in Roberts' forehead (a byproduct...
...modest financial weight--it manages some $170 million-- behind the pro-life cause, arguing in its promotional literature that "investing in companies that are involved in abortions would be material cooperation with evil at a minimum." In addition to lobbying Whirlpool and other firms that once donated to Planned Parenthood, Aquinas leans on drugmakers, hospitals and insurance companies whose stock the funds own to quit offering contraceptives or abortion services. Aquinas joined other investors in petitioning executives at Disney and Best Buy until both companies took steps to closely monitor products that could allegedly provoke faithlessness (such as films critical...
...along, arguments have focused on the bottom line. "How many people are going to buy appliances because you give to Planned Parenthood ... Probably zero, right?" Rauscher asks. "But how many people who are pro-life [would not buy one]? You may get a certain percentage of the public who says, 'I'm just not going to buy their appliances because of that.'" Whirlpool says its changed donation policy was a response to customer pressure, including boycott threats, not Aquinas' efforts. Walt Disney and Best Buy declined to comment...