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TULSA, Oklahoma, April 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — An Oklahoma mother allowed her daughter to go on an educational field trip only to have her return with a three-year chemical contraceptive implant inside her arm. Langston Hughes Academy hosts an annual sex-ed class by Youth Services of Tulsa. When Miracle Foster's daughter wanted to learn more, she allowed her to visit the clinic. But Youth Services of Tulsa is part of the Tulsa Area Teen Pregnancy Prevention Collaborative, whose PregNOT program began in 2010 with $1.5 million in tax funding from the Obama Health and Human Services' Office of Adolescent Health....

Only an hour ago we had been lamenting yet another incredibly bad road. Here in the Ugandan outback, it is as pointless to complain about the roads as it is to complain about politicians in America, but railing against the unchangeable can lighten the mood. But on the way out of a small village in the Bukedea region of Uganda, we didn’t feel the bumps. That was when our team’s defenses failed, and when the gravity of the assault on women—perpetrated by the champions of “women’s health” and “empowerment”—really hit home. It may have been just me, but my guess...

GIRLS as young as 13 have been given controversial contraceptive implants that can make them infertile for up to three years. Figures obtained by Scotland on Sunday reveal that at least 100 under 16-year-olds have been fitted with the matchstick sized hormone implants at NHS family planning clinics in the past year. The implants have sparked concerns about the long-term health implications for adolescents. Campaigners also fear they could encourage casual underage sex, increasing the risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Doctors admit the long-term side-effects of the implants, known as Implanon, are still largely unknown, and teenagers could be especially...