Posted on 10/19/2020 4:50:31 AM PDT by xomething
A new Vermont law, supported by the abortion chain Planned Parenthood, mandates that every middle and high school provide free condoms to students as young as 11.
Fox News reports Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed the law Oct. 5 despite major concerns from parents and pro-lifers about sexual abuse of young children.
“There should be concern when there is evidence that a child is engaged in a sexual relationship — such as when a 12-year old seeks out condoms,” said Sharon Toborg, a policy analyst for the Vermont Right to Life Committee. “Yet instead of strengthening efforts to identify children who are potentially being abused, [the bill] weakens the mandatory reporting laws.”
According to Vermont law, sex with a child under 16 is statutory rape. Prior to age 16, state law recognizes that children are too young and immature to understand and consent to sex.
This conflicts with the new law, which requires public middle and high schools (where children as young as 11 attend) to place free condoms “in locations that are safe and readily accessible to students, including the school nurse’s office.”
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Interestingly, state Rep. Topper McFaun, a Republican who sponsored the legislation, said one of his key goals for the law is to reduce abortions.
“I’m talking about allowing people to be in the position where they don’t have to make the decision, that crucial decision, to have an abortion or not — that’s what I’m trying to prevent,” he told Vermont Public Radio. “And the way to do that is to provide ways to allow people to protect themselves.”
However, the Vermont Right to Life Committee, a leading pro-life group in the state, said the bill is “dangerous” and has the “potential to increase abortion rates in Vermont.”
Planned Parenthood of Vermont supports the law, and it has a long, questionable history about reporting suspected sexual abuse of minors to authorities, the pro-life organization said.
“In 2000, 12 girls under the age of 16 obtained abortions from Planned Parenthood in Vermont,” Vermont Right to Life Committee stated. In 2001, former CEO Nancy Mosher testified to a state House committee that her Planned Parenthood branch “had not notified authorities in each case, nor could she identify any instances of reporting of abuse during the year 2000. She also testified that [Planned Parenthood’s] patients were as young as 9 years old.”
The pro-life organization expressed strong concerns about the law preventing parental involvement and making it easier to hide sexual abuse. It noted that the new law denies parents the right to opt their children out of receiving access to condoms in school.
Supporters of the law pointed to studies that suggest better access to contraception reduces abortion and sexually transmitted disease rates. However, there is conflicting data on the matter, and other studies suggest the opposite may be true.
As a dad, I am not unhappy about giving condoms to young teens. To Mrs D and I this is so far down the list. We know teens will have sex, so why not protect them?
Water balloon fight!
And would they still label those who have sex with minors as *Sexual Offenders* and ruin them for life?
Because I know a high school age kid who had sex with his girlfriend and when her dad found out, it was rape and he was labeled as a sexual offender.
So the left encourages this kind of behavior in teens and never tells them the potential consequences of it, which is having your life ruined forever.
The best protection we can give our offspring is an example of a solid marriage, built around the Word of God, with the explicit training commanded therein to be holy.
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You want the state to give 11 year olds drugs and alcohol, too? Since they’re just gonna do them anyway.
Protect them from what?
They are the least reliable form of birth control going, just as a start.
Condom Knowledge Not Common Knowledge
https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/news/20120224/condom-misuse-common
If you think it's such a great idea, then supply them yourself instead of expecting taxpayers who oppose encouraging promiscuity in immature teens.
Assuming I was a reasonably normal 11 year old boy I can say that such boys don’t have the slightest need for condoms. So is it 11 year old girls who’ll need them? Do 11 year old girls think of engaging in sex acts? If not will they be given condoms so that some pervert adult can have his way with her? Of if they do are they being given condoms,again,to protect adult pervs?
Wasn’t it Clinton’s Surgeon general that was famous for her saying “Condoms for our Chil’n (misspell intentional) that is the way she pronounced it.
No, I don't think the TAXPAYERS should pay for them.
As for alcohol, Italy let teens drink wine with parents approval. They don't have the problem with alcohol.
No, I replied without a cup of coffee...The parents should buy the condoms. When a state gets involved in sending something for free (let’s say a $1 widget from Walmart) it will cost the TAXPAYERS $15 for the. ‘free’ widget.
If you want to stick your head in the sand about teenagers
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11 year olds aren’t “teenagers”
Why not just pass them out in kindergarten?
Pedophile teachers and administrators can get a line on which kids want to be sexually active that way.
11 year olds are not teens, but they are starting puberty. Puberty is starting earlier each generation. Should we not talk to our kids? It is a topic that is controversial.
Right: so by the same reasoning we should also make sure every teen has access to methamphetamines and cocaine, so they can try them in a safe environment.
Jolly good; carry on. /s
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