Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

New Hampshire wants to educate women.

(e) Materials that inform the pregnant woman that there is evidence of a direct link between abortion and breast cancer. It is scientifically undisputed that full-term pregnancy reduces a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer. It is also undisputed that the earlier a woman has a first full-term pregnancy, the lower her risk of breast cancer becomes, because following a full-term pregnancy the breast tissue exposed to estrogen through the menstrual cycle is more mature and cancer resistant. In fact, for each year that a woman’s first full-term pregnancy is delayed, her risk of breast cancer rises 3.5 percent. The theory that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer builds upon this undisputed foundation. During the first and second trimesters of pregnancy the breasts develop merely by duplicating immature tissues. Once a woman passes the thirty-second week of pregnancy (third trimester), the immature cells develop into mature cancer resistant cells. When an abortion ends a normal pregnancy, the woman is left with more immature breast tissue than she had before she was pregnant. In short, the amount of immature breast tissue is increased and this tissue is exposed to significantly greater amounts of estrogen—a known cause of breast cancer. Women facing an abortion decision have a right to know that such medical data exists. At the very least, women must be informed that it is undisputed that pregnancy provides a protective effect against the later development of breast cancer. - HB 1659 - 2012  [1]

If it is undisputed that the earlier a woman "has a first full-term pregnancy, the lower her risk of breast cancer becomes," New Hampshire should legislate that Junior High and High School women have this information. Why only legislate this information for the 1/3 of women that will get an abortion? I am sure that there are childless third year graduate students that need to know.

Some quick references:

...The average age of first-time mothers in the U.S. jumped from 21.4 in 1970 to 25 in 2006, an increase of 3.6 years, according to a report in the August edition of NCHS Data Brief, a publication of the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics... The average age at first birth has risen five years or more in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, while increasing less than 2.5 years in Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma... [2]

The median age for first marriage is 28.7 for males and 26.7 for females. [3]

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Am I presenting a straw man of O'Reilly's views?




 Fox News covers contraception as is required by New York law (and most other states). Therefore according O'Reilly's logic, he is paying for all the women at Fox News, New York, married and unmarried, to have sex.

It is hard to believe that Jesus believes that every married or unmarried woman who uses contraceptive birth control pills that are connected to an insurance mandate is being paid to have sex.

Am I presenting a straw man of O'Reily's views?

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Jenna McCarthy: What you don't know about marriage




  • Happiest marriages, wife is thinner than the husband
  • Happiest couples focus on the positive
  • The more a husband does housework, the more sexually attractive he is.
  • The people who smile in childhood photos are less likely to get a divorce
  • People who win an Oscar for best actress are more likely to get a divorce
  • Watching romantic comedies cause relationship satisfaction to plummet
  • Drinking alcohol is bad for marriage
  • Divorce is contagious 
  • 1000 legal benefits to marriage
  • Married people make more money
  • More sex than single people
  • Married people live longer.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

'Sexperiment:' Ed Young Suffers Eye Injury; Leaves Before 24 Hours Over


Dressed warmly, Ed and Lisa Young remained under a white comforter in bed on the roof of their Grapevine megachurch, conducting bedside interviews, talking via Skype with pastors and friends about sex in marriage from God’s perspective. But the eye injury forced the couple to take a break toward the last few hours, ahead of their scheduled 6 a.m. CST ending time on Saturday.[1]

Friday, December 9, 2011

Marriage Project

College (highly) educated people had an 11% divorce rate in the late 90's.

However less people are getting married than ever before.  The people who get married are more likely to stay married. [1]

Friday, November 4, 2011

1860 Methodist Wedding Vows


M., "Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance, in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her, in, sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?
The man shall answer,
I will.
Then shall the minister say unto the woman,
N., Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance, in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, serve him, love, honor, and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
The woman shall answer,
I will.

Then the minister shall cause the man with his right hand to take the woman by her right handy oiid to say after him as followeth:
I, M., take thee, iV., to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance: and thereto I plight thee my faith.
Then shall they loose their hands, and the woman with her'rignt hand taking the man by his right hand, shall likewise say after the minister:
I, Jf., take thee, M., to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance: and thereto I give thee my faith.[1]