Dr Paul Allen

Researchers have concluded that for every hour of exposure to sexual content in movies , teens were more than five times more likely to lose their virginity within six years. "Adolescents who are exposed to more sexual content in movies start having sex at younger ages, have more sexual partners , and are less likely to use condoms with casual sexual partners," said Dr. Ross O'Hara, who led the study, which focused on 1,228 children ages 12 to 14, with follow-ups conducted six years later. "This study, and its confluence with other work, strongly suggests that parents need to restrict their children from seeing sexual content in movies at young ages." O'Hara went on to report that while more than half of adolescents use movies and the media as their "greatest source of sexual information," many could not differentiate between what they saw on a screen and what they confronted in real life. Nearly 700 of the highest grossing movies released bet...

Image via Wikipedia An article published in February in the international, peer-reviewed  Journal of Medical Ethics  is making headlines around the world. In the article, former Cambridge and Oxford University researchers Dr.  Alberto Giubilini  and Dr.  Francesca Minerva  argue the very point pro-life advocates have said all along: There is no essential difference between a fetus and a newborn, and their moral status is the same.  Pro-life supporters should be elated. But we’re not. In claiming that unborn children and newborn children are morally equivalent, Giubilini and Minerva are not arguing for the right to life. To the contrary, the  article advocates what the authors term “after-birth abortion.” The British tabloid   The Sun  put it a bit more starkly in a  headline last week: “Slaughter Newborn Kids, Say Academics.”  The Telegraph ’s  headline  sums it up this way: “ Killing Babies Is No Different Fr...