Posted on 06/12/2015 7:00:32 PM PDT by Morgana
Over the years some high schools have tried to ban things like soda. And yet they are going in another direction. That schools are having questionable sex education programs and on-campus clinics isn’t enough anymore.
One high school in Seattle is now implanting intrauterine devices (IUD), as well as other forms of birth control. The IUD is known as a long acting reversible contraception, and may even act as an abortifacient. So, a young teen in Seattle can’t get a coke at her high school, but she can have a device implanted into her uterus, which can unknowingly kill her unborn child. Or, if she uses another method, she can increase her chances of health risks for herself, especially if using a new method. Birth control has even been the tragic cause of death for some young women.
The high school, Chief Sealth International, a public school, began offering the devices in 2010, made possible by a Medicaid program known as Take Charge and a non-profit, Neighborcare.
Students can receive the device or other method free of cost and without their parent’s insurance. And while it’s lauded that the contraception is confidential, how can it be beneficial for a parent-child relationship when the parents don’t even know the devices or medication their daughter is using?
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Naturally, the pro-abortion and feminist sites are thrilled. This is coming from a culture where celebrities’ advice to these young women is centered on birth control, like Elizabeth Banks. Does have nothing to say for those who are abstinent? How about trying to really relate? And, if any state were going to essentially implant an abortifacient device into students on site, it’s not shocking that it would be Washington, which has consistently been ranked one of the most pro-abortion states by Americans United for Life, if not the most.
But is this really a good thing? For those in our culture who want to keep promoting a culture of sex—consequence free of course—and then a dependence on birth control, and, should it fail, abortion, it makes perfect sense to get kids hooked young. Sites lauding the decision certainly go through lengths to point out that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended LARCS as the most effective form of birth control for high-school girls. This is a pro-abortion organization though, make no mistake. And is “most effective” really necessarily in a girl’s best interest, especially when “most effective” means yeah, you won’t pregnant, but it could be because you conceived and then lost the baby.
It seems that these students are being woefully misguided. Indeed, reporting from Salon and Grist includes interviews and statements from those involved in the Neighborcare program, including Katie Acker, a health educator at the Chief Sealth clinic. The contraception has actually come up as cause for excitement, gossip and a point of pride. It’s a sad development for our culture.
Also noteworthy is how reporting from the Feminist Majority blog chooses it’s wording when it describes Take Charge as, with emphasis added, “a Washington State Medicaid program that specially targets minors seeking comprehensive contraception services.” The blog may not have intended such phrasing, or at least not with such a connotation, but the sad fact still remains that these teens are indeed being targeted.
Easy marks, with notation, for teachers on the prowl.
Well, this sure as crap will cut into the bottom line of Planned Parenthood.
abolish government schools
Nothing a crowbar can’t take of.
abolish government.
You’ll be much happier once you accept the fact that your children belong to the government.
That’s horrible! I wonder if any of the girls with iud’s can sue the school system if they get aids or bad scarring that makes them infertile.
That’s ok, the public school that MY DAUGHTER goes to would NEVER do something like that.
How do I know - well because, ehhh, ehhh, they wouldn’t ever think of doing anything like that. Yea, that’s it!
(as rationalized by FReepers that STILL send their kids to public schools DESPITE all that is published here)
I seriously doubt that. Anything that prevents pregnancy cuts into abortion mill profits.
When I was in high school, a Planned Parenthood came to my biology class to "teach" us about birth control. The take home message she attempted to give was two-fold: one, that birth control will probably fail, and two, that birth control is extremely dangerous. She was there to sell abortion, not birth control.
Well, the worst thing that could happen would be sterility or death. But given the original purpose of Sanger to eliminate undesirables, including inferior races, at least they are remaining true to their original mission, unlike many long-established organizations.
IUDs don’t cause AIDS.
IUDs lead to promiscuity which leads to HIV infections which become AIDs. That is a pretty simple concept. Can you not see it?
What do you expect in a city that has a Statue of Lenin in the city park!
“You’ll be much happier once you accept the fact that your children belong to the government.”
Well, it IS feeding them and housing them...so...”possession is 9/10’ths of the law!
Jeez...
Ping
Nope. No difference between IUDs, the Pill, or other common methods as far as that goes. You have statistics to support your position? Post a link.
They’ll gets aids because they are no longer using condoms.
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