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Cheryl Wetzstein

cwetzstein@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Wetzstein, a Washington Times staff member since 1985, is manager of special sections in The Washington Times' Advertising and Marketing Department.
Previously, she spent 30 years as a Washington Times news reporter, covering national domestic policy, in addition to being a features writer, environmental and consumer affairs reporter, and assistant business editor.
Beginning in 1994, Mrs. Wetzstein worked exclusively on welfare and family issues such as child support enforcement, abstinence and sex education, child welfare, sexually transmitted diseases, marriage, divorce, cohabiting and gay marriage.
She has won several newspaper awards, including 1977 Cub Reporter of the Year and 1983 Heart of New York award, both from the New York Press Club.

Articles by Cheryl Wetzstein

This undated image provided by Bedsider.org shows a package of estrogen/progestin birth control pills. (AP Photo/Bedsider.org)

U.S. birth-control use stable, except for increase in use of IUDs: study

American women of child-bearing age continue to use birth control at high rates, with the pill, condoms and sterilization remaining the most common methods of avoiding pregnancy. However, use of the intrauterine device has steadily grown, the National Center for Health Statistics said Tuesday.

November 10, 2015
Pro-life demonstrators head towards the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, during the annual March for Life. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators gathered in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decisions that declared a constitutional right to abortion. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Annual pro-life march gets more young support

Uplifted by a swelling public outcry over the undercover Planned Parenthood videos, the pro-life movement's marquee event is taking aim -- again -- at the idea that opposing abortion is pro-women.

November 4, 2015
Lt. Cmdr. Wesley J. "Wes" Modder, a Navy chaplain, is shown at his chapel at his new duty station in San Diego. (Earnie Grafton/Special to The Washington Times)

Wes Modder, Navy chaplain, resumes ministry after fight over beliefs

Lt. Commander Wesley J. "Wes" Modder, a decorated Navy chaplain with nearly 20 years of unblemished service, remembers vividly the moment he told his wife he could go back to the calling he loved, having been reinstated after a bitter battle that pitted religious freedom and individual conscience against the mandate to respect gay and women's rights.

November 4, 2015
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington can be seen in this file photo taken Sept. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Science, religion not in conflict for most Americans

Two-thirds of American adults have no problem reconciling their religious faith with the facts of science, but 59 percent think "other people" have a problem, according to a new Pew Research Center study.

October 22, 2015

Reconciling faith and science: Pew study

Two-thirds of American adults have no problem reconciling their religious faith with the facts of science, but 59 percent think "other people" have a problem, according to a new Pew Research Center study.

October 22, 2015
In this July 28, 2015, file photo, Erica Canaut, center, cheers as she and other anti-abortion activists rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, to condemn the use in medical research of tissue samples obtained from aborted fetuses. Texas announced Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, that it was cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics following undercover videos of officials discussing fetal tissue, potentially triggering a legal fight like the one unfolding in neighboring Louisiana. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Planned Parenthood funding sustained in Louisiana, stopped in Texas

A Planned Parenthood affiliate received both good news and bad news Monday in its Medicaid funding battles, with a federal judge temporarily requiring Louisiana to fund the abortion provider while a Texas inspector general's office decided to cut off the group.

October 19, 2015
Participants carry a rainbow-colored flag down Fifth Avenue in New York during the Heritage Pride March, Sunday, June 28, 2015. A large turnout was expected for gay pride parades across the U.S. following the landmark Supreme Court ruling that said gay couples can marry anywhere in the country. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

‘Conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ children now deemed harmful

The federal government took sides Thursday in the battle over therapy aimed at helping youths deal with same-sex attractions as a powerful agency released a report condemning "conversion therapy" as harmful, calling for its end, and recommending that government regulators and professional associations ban it.

October 15, 2015
In this Nov. 15, 2007 photo, Hugh Hefner smiles while signing copies of the Playboy calendar and Playboy Cover To Cover: The 50's DVD box set in Los Angeles. Playboy will no longer publish photos of nude women as part of a redesign of the decades-old magazine, according to a news report Monday, Oct. 12, 2015. Executives for the magazine company told The New York Times that the change will take place in March 2016. Playboy editor Cory Jones contacted founder and current editor in chief Hugh Hefner recently about dropping nude photos from the print edition and he agreed, the Times reported. (Ian West/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

Playboy’s ‘less-nude’ policy a nod to cultural shift

Playboy's recent announcement that its magazine will no longer depict fully naked women in its pages is a significant culture shift -- showing that people now crave extreme or "fetishized" images and acts, says an anti-exploitation organization.

October 14, 2015
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called the new policy an effort to end the scandal over what she has called edited and misleading videos. (Associated Press)

Planned Parenthood to stop taking money for fetal-tissue donation

After having spent months saying that its officials were doing nothing unethical in undercover videos showing them haggling over the price for aborted fetal organs, Planned Parenthood's leader said Tuesday the group will no longer accept any payment for the parts.

October 13, 2015