A school in New Zealand gave out condoms to students attending a ball 'to help them make better choices' but the move has shocked an advocacy group.
In the News
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August 1st, 2010
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July 31st, 2010
More than 450 pupils a day return to school after being excluded for attacking teachers and classmates, figures revealed yesterday.
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July 31st, 2010
Children were suspended from school on more than 80,000 occasions last year for attacking teachers and classmates, official figures showed today.
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July 31st, 2010
In a new twin set of pieces in Commonweal, legal scholar Timothy Jost and the magazine?s editors have responded to my Public Discourse essay on abortion and health care. Reasonable people can disagree, but the repeated refusal or inability of Professor Jost and Commonweal to acknowledge the basic facts of the case is enough to arouse suspicion.
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July 31st, 2010
Where's the money? That's the question on everyone's mind after reading the recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The GAO numbers on money paid out to Planned Parenthood between 2002 and 2008 reveal an unaccounted-for $1.3 billion.
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July 31st, 2010
I had lunch this summer with a prospective graduate student at the evangelical college where I teach. I will call him John because that happens to be his name. John has done well academically at a public university. Nevertheless, as often happens, he said that he was looking forward to coming to a Christian university, and then launched into a story of religious discrimination.
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July 31st, 2010
An attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is describing the ruling in a case at Eastern Michigan University, which is challenging a Christian's rights to maintain her beliefs, as 'open season on Christians.' A federal court has ruled in the university's favor, but that decision is being appealed.
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July 31st, 2010
Jessica Phelan weighed less than a bag of sugar when she was born at just over 23 weeks and four days. But the youngster, who was Britain's youngest surviving premature baby at her birth, has overcome all the odds to celebrate her 21st birthday.
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July 31st, 2010
A 'postcode lottery' for women seeking infertility treatment in Scotland has been highlighted by campaigners.
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July 30th, 2010
Officials in the Swiss city of Basel have fined five Muslim families for refusing to allow their daughters to attend compulsory swimming classes in school, Swiss news agency ATS reports.