Dr. La Verne believes that abstinence education and adoption are the answers to abortion.  Her book, Keeping You & Your Kids Sexually Pure, details her experience as a board member of Planned Parenthood, New York City from 1975-1980.  Because information about fetal development was not yet widely known and abortion had only been legalized nationally since 1973, Tolbert assumed that Planned Parenthood was telling the truth when they said the fetus was just a mass of tissue.  That was until she learned that the Department of Health required a death certificate for every abortion performed. more...