Soda No, Plan B Morning After Pill... Of Course

Disturbing news coming out of the New York City school system:

New York City schools are offering young girls a full menu of birth control options, free of parental counsel, thanks to an unpublicized project by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration.

School nurses handed out 12,721 doses of the Plan B One-Step “morning-after” pill in 2011-12, up from 10,720 in 2010-11 and 5,039 in 2009-10, the New York Post reports.

Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union, was stunned by the report.

“I’m in shock,” she said. “What gives the mayor the right to decide, without adequate notice, to give our children drugs that will impact their bodies and their psyches? He has purposely kept the public and parents in the dark with his agenda.”

Besides “emergency contraception,” about 40 school-based clinics have dispensed prescriptions for contraception, intrauterine devices and hormone-delivering injections, the Post reports.

Stunning.  

Here's but a sampling of the warnings and precautions for the Plan B One-Step "morning-after" pill:

The most common adverse events (>10%) in the clinical trial for women receiving Plan B One-Step included heavier menstrual bleeding (30.9%), nausea (13.7%), lower abdominal pain (13.3%), fatigue (13.3%), and headache (10.3%).

Think of the parent who sees his/her daughter suffering from any or all of these symptoms and being oblivious to the likely cause. 

Then think about the fact that the same guy passing out these Plan B pills like M&Ms at city schools is the guy who doesn't want your daughter to drink soda.

It's incredible.

Progressive logic... is neither.  

It's regressive stupidity.

Comments

[Marv]

When this all comes to a head and there is blood in the streets, who will be surprised. Hell, I'm surprised that a dozen fathers haven't marched into their daughter's schools after learning the truth and tuning up (or worse) a principal or two already. Obviously, the state (and I include the schools in this) aren't terribly afraid of the people they serve, and they should be. Every single one of the principals and nurses who administered these drugs should be fired. I hope at a minimum a thousand lawsuits are launched. Young girls need to be defended from this evil, not to mention their children.

[Clinton]

How is it that a school nurse cannot administer so much as an
aspirin to a child without parental consent, yet they can stuff a
kid full of contraceptives without a parent's OK? What happens
after some kids suffer serious side effects from those IUDs
and drugs? Moral questions aside, are the schools prepared to
face the liability from the inevitable lawsuits?

I suppose that ideology trumps common sense for the people
behind this development. Down the line, when (not if, but
when) there are injuries and lawsuits, I suppose those
responsible will have already moved on to greener bureaucratic
pastures, and their successors in the various school boards will
be the ones to clean up the mess. And, after all, what settlements
may be reached won't come out of those policymaker's pockets,
but are on the taxpayer's dime.

[Isabel Forys]

I pity the parents of those schools.