Sixth Graders Get Birth Control and Teens Gets IUDs Without Parents’ Knowledge

Last updated on: July 13, 2015 at 10:24 am by Nancy French

Sixth Graders Get Birth Control and Teens Gets IUDs Without Parents’ Knowledge 2015-07-13T10:24:17-05:00 Nancy French

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A public high school in Seattle thinks letting girls drink soda is more dangerous than implanting high schoolers with IUDs — without their parents’ permission.

I couldn’t believe what I was reading:

…students as young as sixth grade have ready access to taxpayer-funded birth control, without ever having to tell mom and dad.

“Thanks to a Washington state Medicaid program called Take Charge and the nonprofit Neighborcare, teens can access confidential counseling on different birth control methods — and LARC insertion — more easily than they can buy a soda,” boasts Salon Magazine.

The statement is not just journalistic flourish, but literal truth. Seattle famously banned soda pop from public school campuses in 2004 for health reasons, yet teen students can get an IUD inserted at their school’s health center without their parents’ knowledge.

Behold, your tax dollars at work. The people who are promoting these programs apparently think that “casual locker room chitchat about birth control is good, while dialogue between teens and parents is bad.” What’s even worse than eliminating the parents from this conversation? The types of birth control these programs are pushing can have serious side effects, including abortion:

LARCs are associated with serious side effects, such as uterine perforation and infection. IUDs, specifically, can also act as abortifacients by preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg.

Can’t we agree that the health risks of drinking soda are much less serious than the risks of having something implanted inside your body? Making these available to minors without their parents’ knowledge or consent should not be the government’s business.

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