Posted on 10/03/2019 5:41:16 PM PDT by Coleus
BALTIMORE, Maryland, October 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A mother is furious after discovering that her 16-year-old daughter’s headaches and soreness were caused by a birth control implant inserted by a school nurse without her consent.
Nicole Lambert was shocked to learn from her daughter’s pediatrician that the pain her daughter was experiencing had been caused by a tiny tube containing the contraceptive “Nexplanon,” which had been improperly inserted in her daughter’s upper arm.
Not only did the doctor recommend that the tube be removed to alleviate the child’s discomfort, but he further warned that the contraceptive could cause far worse side-effects, such as blood clots.
“I actually started crying because just to hear that your child, anything could happen to your child and you don’t even know what’s going on,” Lambert told WMAR-2 News. “It’s a scary feeling.”
“I actually went to the school. I was furious. I was mad, so I went to the school and the nurse told me, ‘I don't have to talk to you about absolutely nothing,’” said Lambert. “I’m like that is my child, I take care of this child, you can talk to me about my child.”
“And they put me out of the school,” said Lambert.
“They call me for Tylenol, but they don't call me about birth control,” continued the concerned mom. “You gave my daughter this insertion so she might be suffering from that, but do they even look at that?”
“Other kids out here could be going through the same thing and their parents don’t know about it. And I just think these kids, if they have it incorrectly or whatever it is, they should be checked because anything could happen to these kids,” she added.
Disturbed that her daughter — and others — could, without parental notification, undergo such an invasive medical treatment that comes with potential serious side-effects, Lambert has hired attorney David Ledyard to investigate.
“Ms. Lambert wasn’t given the choice to pick the medical provider where her daughter would feel comfortable going and receiving these services, who she knew did a comprehensive medical exam, who she knew knew her medical history,” Ledyard explained.
“There's no transparency in the training or certification of the school health centers,” Ledyard told PJ Media.
“Are they looking at the medical history of the students and doing a full workup before implanting these devices?” asked Ledyard. “What is the certification process and training of the nurses?”
Lambert’s daughter attends Digital Harbor High School, which is home to one of Baltimore City’s 17 School-Based Health Centers (SBHC), several of which offer birth control to students.
According to the Baltimore City Health Department, 164 students were using birth control provided at school during the 2017–2018 school year, including oral contraceptive pills, Plan B, Depo-Provera, NuvaRing, and Nexplanon.
Maryland’s health code states, “A minor has the same capacity as an adult to consent to treatment for or advice about contraception other than sterilization.” Minors are also able to consent to treatment for or advice about drug abuse, alcoholism, venereal disease, and pregnancy, as well as to consent to physical examination and treatment of injuries from — or to obtain evidence from — an alleged rape or sexual offense.
According to PJ Media’s report, the surgery to remove the Nexplanon implant from Lambert’s daughter also entailed removing skin and tissue damaged by the device.
Although the Nexplanon implant was inserted into her daughter’s body without Lambert’s knowledge, a doctor could not remove it without Lambert’s consent.
Just remember that it was the late great state of Texas under the signature of Rick Perry (R) that forced the “slut shot” aka HPV vaccine on all schoolgirls.
Just sayin’.
I have little love for the Peoples’ Rebpulikkk of Maryland but our side is far from perfect.
Just don’t give them an aspirin.
“They can give them contraceptives, abortions, hormone blockers, amphetamines and you can’t say anything about it”
Not for most you listed.
They call you for a Tylenol but will put your daughter on birth control or take her to get an abortion without your knowledge. Does anyone besides me see a problem here?
Close public, i.e. state, schools.
To quote Malcolm X, “Only a fool would let his enemies teach his children.”
Yep. Replace patriots with people who have no allegiance to the US.
The State sees parents as mere obstacles to be overcome, as the State wants the little ones to see the State as Mommy and Daddy.
Sounds reasonable to me. After all, it’s a PUBLIC SCHOOL and public schools are run by Leftists...and pushing kids to have sex earlier and earlier is something Leftists have been doing for decades. She’s just making a fool of herself by complaining about it.
If the mom REALLY wants to find out who to get mad at, all she has to do is walk in front of a mirror to get that answer, as no one FORCED her to send her child to an institution run by Leftists.
Remember, a parent can’t send their “minor” child to school with so much as an aspirin!!
You left out the most important part of that comment: Your response
Any medical complications that might arise from an action taken by a school nurse, no doubt the billing for the remediation would fall on the non-consenting parents.
These people are insane.
Move out of Maryland, if your only choice is public education.
Pretty much my reaction.
This crappola has to stop. Nothing short of a public confrontation of these evil people will start to turn the tables.
My daughters never implemented their state given right. Vengeance might had been an option.
The really blatant omission in the article is even a single mention of “the daughter’s say”. Did the school have the daughter’s consent in writing? Did the daughter seek out contraception?
Of course, the other information is germane, but without any mention of what the daughter was thinking there is a big gap in the information needed to draw conclusions.
I know that years ago, there were girls I knew who took birth control pills even though they had never dated, just in case they had spontaneous sex, or something, as stupid as that sounds.
Alternatively, the girl in the article many have been sexually active, or very sexually active, and maybe with someone for whom sex with children was not legal.
File criminal charges for practicing medicine with out a license, file complaints with any medical licensing board and most importantly, file criminal assault on a minor charges.
Then go for a lawsuit.
Don’t want one of the teachers knocking her up...Bad PR
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