Florida lawmaker stuns colleagues with her past abuse.
Florida State Senator Larcenia Bullard (D-FL) stunned her colleagues during the floor debate of a measure to let voters decide whether or not to require parental notification before a minor could have an abortion. Bullard, the only Senate Democrat to support the parental notification bill, told stunned colleagues that if she hadn't told her mother that she had been sexually abused by her father that she would have never found closure to her ordeal. Bullard came forward with this revelation after her Democrat colleagues questioned whether victims of abuse would tell their mother if their father or step-father was the perpetrator. READ ARTICLE HERE

Judges rejects recanted story in child sex abuse case.
A North Carolina Judge refused to throw out the 1989 conviction of a man for sexually abusing his daughter. His daughter has now recanted, after he father spent 15 years in prison, but the judge believes she did it in an effort to reconnect with part of her family. READ ARTICLE HERE

One-third of sexually active teens got an STD in 2000 alone. In the year 2000 alone, more than one-third of America's sexually active teens contracted a sexually transmitted disease (STD) 25% of American will contract a STD in their lifetime and more than half of our young people will. READ ARTICLE HERE

In other news…
The Bush Administration continues its assault on the world sex slave trafficking industry. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is now joining the aggressive efforts of the Department of Justice and the State Department with a national campaign of its own. The HHS program will look to identify victims. An estimated 20,000 women and children are brought into the United States each year to be used as sex slaves. READ ARTICLE HERE

An Australian court has ordered sex change hormones be given to a 13 year old girl who will have a sex change operation when she turns 18. The girl, who has been raised as a boy and is known as "Alex" is chromosomally female. READ ARTICLE HERE

Yet another study shows different brain activity associated with dissociation and traumatic stress. This study, on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), appears in the April, 2004 edition of Biological Psychiatry. (Schmahl CG, Vermetten E, Elzinga BM, Bremner JD. (2004, April 1). A positron emission tomography study of memories of childhood abuse in borderline personality disorder. Biol Psychiatry; 55(7):759-65)