Posted on 07/06/2015 8:49:50 AM PDT by wagglebee
AUCKLAND, NZ, July 3, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Every girl in New Zealand will be put on long-acting reversible contraceptive drugs, delivered through implants or patches, before they become sexually active, if a group of health researchers at New Zealand's Otago University gets its way.
"I would imagine, off the top of my head, that it would happen a bit like vaccinations happen," Neil Pickering, a senior bioethics lecturer at the university, told Radio New Zealand report. “It would be a routine thing, and being done through schools would be an obvious way.”
Helen Paterson, of the University of Otago's department of women's and children's health, suggested that a contraceptive called Jadelle, which is a drug-laden plastic rod that is implanted into the girl's upper arm by a doctor, would be a good choice and should be available to the teens free of charge.
"What we want to do is make something that's universally available," Paterson said, "so that adolescents can easily access good care in terms of their contraception that's provided to them."
The Otago University group is aware that their suggestion is controversial, with Dr. Pickering noting that he "would expect there to be a reaction against this because it's a fairly new suggestion that people perhaps haven't thought about previously.”
He added that "obviously” the girls' “parents and the children themselves would need to be informed that this is going to happen, and informed that they have the option not to take part if they don't wish to.”
"The idea of giving young people, teens, medication which you might say they don't need and can't benefit from," Pickering said, "all these things would no doubt come into people's minds and in addition to that people might have fears such as, 'Oh, won't that mean they'll start going out and having sex willy-nilly with everybody'."
The call for universal contraception for young girls has met with strong criticism from groups on opposite sides of the issue.
Jackie Edmond, the director of "reproductive health" services provider Family Planning NZ said the proposal is “overkill” and goes further than necessary to reduce teen pregnancy, which is already declining.
"We're overkilling it, putting implants in people who aren't intending to or aren't having sex," Edmond told NZ Newswire.
Dave Ayling, clinical director of a youth health and counseling service in Palmerston North said, "Contraception is not a one-off task that involves sticking some rods in an arm." He warned that adverse effects of the drugs could pose a potential health risk that young girls are not prepared for.
"I also worry about ongoing costs associated with LARCs [long-acting reversible contraception] for managing potential side-effects that a lot will not be able to afford, so focusing on a sustainable equitable contraception service is more where the emphasis should go," Ayling said.
School guidance counselors are "horrified" at the idea of universal contraception, according to a report by Newstalk ZB.
"I think often it's hard enough for young women to say no to sexual advances, but if a lot of young men know that they're already on contraception, I wonder how that will be for them to actually say no," said Sarah Maindonald of the New Zealand Association of Counselors.
Pro-life group Family First NZ called the scheme a "flawed, morally bankrupt" approach that will do more harm than good.
“The decreasing proportion of teens wanting to be sexually active need parental involvement and good advice," said Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.
"Contraception deals with unwanted pregnancy, but there’s no mention of the danger of sexually transmitted infections and increased sexual activity. Making it free and even more accessible is going to continue to alienate parents from the role they should be involved in. What we should be asking is, why are young teenagers becoming sexually active, what messages are teens receiving about sexual involvement, and what messages do parents actually want their children to receive,” McCoskrie said.
Noting that rates of teen abortions have fallen significantly recently, McCoskrie pointed out that "this has nothing to do with contraception, and everything to do with decreased sexual activity, and education, and awareness for teens on the actual consequences” of early sexual activity.
Family First NZ stresses that a U.S. study found increased access to emergency contraception actually increases the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, risk taking and a false sense of security while doing nothing to reduce the number of abortions, and that the side effects specific to Jadelle implants, which contain levonorgestrel, include irregular menstrual bleeding, application site reactions, dizziness, headache, vaginal discharge, breast pain, nausea, pelvic pain, urinary tract symptoms, vaginitis, and weight gain.
Levonorgestrel is also linked to increased risk of liver dysfunction and potentially deadly blood clots.
All LARCs potentially act as abortifacients, rather than contraceptives, as well.
“Teen girls deserve to be informed of the serious consequences of early sexual activity including the impact on emotional and mental welfare and academic performance, rather than given a false sense of security and being encouraged to take risks by adults who should know better,” Bob McCoskrie said.
He added that British researchers found that greater use of contraceptive implants and drugs had an almost statistically insignificant effect on teenage pregnancy rates.
“Ironically, getting a good education could be the best form of contraception for teenagers, according to a recent UK study.”
Exactly!
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Brave New World.
Evil.
The elites have to find ways to depopulate the world! This is another one.
Couple of thoughts:
- Article makes this sound to be voluntarily, but I strongly suspect it will be enforced as mandatory.
- Interrupting the hormone cycles of young women whose bodies are still developing can only do them harm in the long run.
- This perfectly illustrates a major reason why I am on the side of “the resisters” to the mandatory vaccines movement.
“We’re the government, WE know what’s best for YOU - besides, it’s for the children - you DO care about children, DON’T YOU??”
Government giving itself permission to medically assault fully half of all children. Pure evil. This is a form of enslavement to the progressive vision of morality.
Ping
Cattle get treated more humanely than the State will treat our children.
Has anyone proposed giving all teenaged boys vasectomies?
Was talking to a neighbor girl who had just finished her second year of indoctrination at the local state u. She said gays need to flourish and their marriage be legalized, as there are too many people on the planet.
Trial balloon intended to gauge the reaction of the subjects.
Well, now that mandatory implants are acceptable (so young girls can enjoy consequence-free sex, the most important goal of all of mankind!), government can implant whatever else they see fit. We can always trust government, right? I’m sure that the next round of mandatory implants will be very reasonable, reliable, and only used for positive purposes. Ahem.
They are putting long term fertility at risk.
There ya go!
The global warming hoax is another hoax to depopulate the planet.
It is the godless “utopian” world of Marxism. Totalitarianism. People are just interchangeable cogs in the wheel——no Free Will.
The trouble is that they allow the State to control their schools——I would not allow TV or “schools” to touch the mind of my child in this evil world which is habituating evil and destroying Virtue deliberately in children using all media.
People should go back to homeshool, until 8 years at least (bring in tutors if you need too—but if you can read, you are capable). The small one room school that recreates the family atmosphere-—all ages (it is less capable of mass brainwashing if you go with Classical curricula—before all the psychology (Zinnean) hate for the country and self was embedded)).
Education comes from within-—never from outside. You have to keep the wonder in young children-—to want to Know. (Ditch the TV which makes kids lazy-—destroys creativity and forces conformity-—one way to see anything-—a bunch of Enya clones.. TV is designed to destroy the integration of the brain and for mass conformity-—to destroy focus and concentration (so they become bored with non-artificial environments—REAL LIFE).
Psychology has been imbedded in all media and schools since 1930s (study Eddie Bernays, who was Freud’s nephew). These evil elites have spent billions on curriculla and controlling producers, and ideas that are fed into your children day and night.
Quote from Johann Gottlieb Fichte from 1810:
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”
Plug’em before you pass’em.
How about the NOT become sexually active until they are adults?
the = they.
When will pro choice feminists admit that contraception only benefits mean men’s sexual pleasure at the expense of women and children?
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