Posted on 02/04/2013 3:09:53 PM PST by NYer
NEW YORK, February 4, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York City schools distributed 12,721 doses of the “Morning-After Pill” to students last year, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The 40 school-based “health centers” also performed thousands of injections of long-term contraception and implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs).
Under state law, schools do not need to obtain parental consent to dispense the drugs. The $2.7 million program has provided contraceptives to 22,400 teens as young as 14.
Last September, the district announced that the city Department of Health had distributed Plan B to 567 teenage girls, and another 580 received Reclipsen birth control. But the New York Post, which filed the FOIA request, discovered the program went far beyond what officials had previously admitted.
In new documents the district reveals it distributed 10,720 doses of “Plan B” in the 2010-11 school year, and 5,039 in 2009-10, the program's launch year.
The schools administered another 2,117 shots of the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera. Students also received hormone injections, or were implanted with the Nuva Ring or IUDs, in addition to receiving 10,462 packets of birth control.
The clinics – located in largely poor areas of the city – have parents and religious leaders up in arms.
“This was population control on blacks and Latinos without our knowledge,” said NYC Parents Union President Mona Davids, who is black.
Both Plan B and the IUD block fertilization, but may also work to prevent a newly conceived child from implanting in the uterine walls, resulting in a chemical abortion.
“What gives the mayor the right to decide, without adequate notice, to give our children drugs that will impact their bodies and their psyches?” Davids asked.
The powerful contraceptive and abortifacient drugs have been found to have a variety of negative side effects. For instance, Reclipsen’s side effects include depression, liver cancer, sudden blindness, heart attack, stroke, and hepatitis, while Arizona State University researchers have linked Depo-Provera to memory loss. The pill has been found to increase risk of blood clot.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn had called the New York City schools' policy “tragic and misguided” in a blog post in September.
“Studies show that increased availability of contraception fails to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion,” they noted.
A study published in December by a University of North Carolina professor found that widespread use of “emergency contraception” had no effect on pregnancy or abortion rates but “led to a statistically significant increase in STD rates.”
Despite the risks and evidence that dispensing contraceptives is not effective, some organizations continue to hold out contraception as a panacea for teenage sexual issues.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a policy statement in November asking doctors, including school nurses, to promote the use of “emergency contraception” among sexually active teens.
Stating that “abstinence before marriage is the only sure way to avoid pregnancy and disease,” Cardinal Dolan and Bishop DiMarzio concluded, “The public schools would be better advised to promote what truly works rather than continuing to follow a failed experiment that will only lead to further problems for society and for young people.”
Ping!
Oh that's right I forgot...that's why Obama got his healthcare passed.
Nevermind.
Plan B? Sure...here. Shhhh, don't say a word to Mommy and Daddy! It'll be our little secret.
Needed immediately: 12,721 prison cells! Stinking criminal child abusers!
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I should be, but I am really shocked at this. We are living in a tyranny of evil. By state law this can happen. Anyone not homeschooling their children in NYS is gambling with their children's lives, health and mental and spiritual wellbeing.
And what the HECK do "hormone injections" do or are for??? Would that be to delay puberty so the poor kid can be a transgender??? Anyone know?
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I should be, but I am really shocked at this. We are living in a tyranny of evil. By state law this can happen. Anyone not homeschooling their children in NYS is gambling with their children's lives, health and mental and spiritual wellbeing.
And what the HECK do "hormone injections" do or are for??? Would that be to delay puberty so the poor kid can be a transgender??? Anyone know?
This is abuse, pure and simple. The NYC school system is out of control.
Greetings - I hope all is well with you...
Our entire fedgove and most stategoves are utterly out of control.
And it’s not going to get any better soon unfortunately.
Libtard logic.
Parents send kids to school with Tylenol or Midol, kids are suspended.
Little Janey wants the morning after pill or an IUD that later punctures her uterus, the school will do and NOT tell the parents.
These people are evil and insane, they think good parents are the ones that are the problems and ought to lose their kids, and I dare say the average (average) public school is no place for your kids anymore.
Hi,
Regarding your question about hormone injections, yes, they can be used for the purpose you mentioned.
Since the article dosent get specific about which drugs are being injected, I can only speculate but I would assume you are correct
But theyll hand out to your underaged kids the morning after pill without your knowledge and permission.
That was the only “use” I could think of. It is so being nauseatingly horrible I can’t think of words to describe it. I hope thousands of parents sue the crap out of the individuals who did it, the NY City school system, all the lawmakers who passed the law, and Bloomberg. And anyone else involved. Beggar them.
Plan B is not an abortion pill, it is a high dose of birth control. Giving out birth control pills is better than the alternatives. It means less abortions, and less tax payer money spent on teen mothers on welfare
Hey, noob - so you think that school children should be given “high dose birth control pill” that is an abortifacient (or even one that isn’t) without their parents’ knowledge or consent?
Wrongo
Plan B can prevent implantation. That means conception already took place, ergo its an abortifacient.
And if you think contraception is a fool-proof way of preventing abortions and “welfare moms”, then you better get your facts straight. The increase in contraceptive use has been directly proportional to the increase in abortions.
Also, no conservative I know would ever support a school system handing out medications without parental consent, especially medications with extreme side effect profiles. And does it not concern you that many of these students are engaging in underage sex, some of which may constitute statutory rape that the school is then complicit in covering up??
FR is the wrong forum for someone espousing your views.
Is Sandra Fluke your hero??
IBTZ
All of the hormonal contraceptives are, of course, endocrine disruptors. They talk about "respecting a young woman's health" and then they spay her like a a bitch. I would not put endocrine disruptors in my compost pile.
And no, I am not kidding.
Next up: "Cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea devastates NYC schoolgirls."
"Expert": "We don't know how this happened. What to do? What to do?"
from this very article:
“Studies show that increased availability of contraception fails to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy and abortion,” they noted.
A study published in December by a University of North Carolina professor found that widespread use of “emergency contraception” had no effect on pregnancy or abortion rates but “led to a statistically significant increase in STD rates.”
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