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NYC Schools Give Out Morning-After Pills To Students Without Telling Parents

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The Department of Education is giving morning-after pills and other birth-control drugs to students at 13 high schools, The Post has learned.

School nurse offices stocked with the contraceptives can dispense “Plan B” emergency contraception and other oral or injectable birth control to girls without telling their parents — unless parents opt out after getting a school informational letter about the new program.

While Big Apple high schools have long supplied free condoms to sexually active teens, this is the first time city schools have dispensed hormonal birth control and Plan B, which can prevent pregnancy if taken up to 72 hours after unprotected sex.

It might be a nationwide first as well. The National Association of School Nurses could cite no other school district supplying Plan B.

So far, during an unpublicized pilot program in five city schools last year, 567 students received Plan B tablets and 580 students received Reclipsen birth-control pills, the city Department of Health told The Post.

This fall, students can also get Depo-Provera, a birth-control drug injected once every three months, officials said.

Oral and injectable contraceptives require prescriptions, which, in the CATCH program, are written by Health Department doctors.

Plan B is typically sold as an over-the-counter medication, but those under age 18 need a prescription. For the CATCH program, students can tell a trained school nurse they had unprotected sex. The student will then get a test to see if she is already pregnant; if not, the prescription is issued and she can walk out with the pill.

The city expanded CATCH to 14 schools with more than 22,000 students over the past year. Officials dropped one, Seward Park Campus in lower Manhattan, because CATCH was overwhelming the medical office.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_schools_plan_UoW7ke5l2KRwg43nH

were the letters sent home with the kids?

were they mailed?

what if little latisha gets to the mailbox first?
 
Can't the morning after pill have some serious side affects?
 
Can't the morning after pill have some serious side affects?

Yes - it CAN and DOES. Just like all forms of birth control that are chemical or hormone based.

I don't believe that it should be even available OTC - if just birth control pills are by prescription only then so should the EC pill - it IS a birth control as far as it's composition goes - it's just in a concentrated form. They wouldn't hand out monthly lots of Yaz :roll:

It's highly dangerous to just assume anyone and everyone can just take it - there were several birth control pills I couldn't take because they would interfere with my other medications for health issues.

BC isn't always a casual thing. Pretending it is sends the wrong message and can put people at serious risk for a variety of ailments and side effects.
 
Yes - it CAN and DOES. Just like all forms of birth control that are chemical or hormone based.

I don't believe that it should be even available OTC - if just birth control pills are by prescription only then so should the EC pill - it IS a birth control as far as it's composition goes - it's just in a concentrated form. They wouldn't hand out monthly lots of Yaz :roll:

It's highly dangerous to just assume anyone and everyone can just take it - there were several birth control pills I couldn't take because they would interfere with my other medications for health issues.

BC isn't always a casual thing. Pretending it is sends the wrong message and can put people at serious risk for a variety of ailments and side effects.

It has been approved by the FDA for over the counter status. All medications have risk, but it's really not any more dangerous than other OTC meds. Because some people have bleeding conditions, should we pull aspirin from the shelves? It is much more likely to interfere with people's prescription medications than birth control is.
 
Parents were told about it and can opt out. I have no problem with this. Besides, it's NY ferchrissakes, these kids can walk into any PP clinic and get all that and more without parental consent.
 
I really don't understand why schools can't just be for learning. Can't all this other stuff be handled by people OUTSIDE of the school?
 
the program has covered its ass either way
now, less reason for unwanted pregnancies
would think your side would appreciate this; fewer future democrats to vote against the GOP candidates
fewer welfare recipients
what's not to like?

kudos to the catch program

That schools are for learning and this has nothing at all to do with that?

And free **** is free **** and government influence is government influence. Why exactly would anyone not on the left like the government doing more to assist people not mess up their lives?
 
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WTF does contraception have to do with school?
 
What I really want to know is why is it that all I ever seem hear from liberals about anymore is free stuff or how the rich aren't paying enough or simply ways to get out of your responsibilities without any harm coming to you. It's like that is all they think about.
 
Oh my god, how horrible. They are keeping kids in schools by preventing the number one reason why young girls drop out. What a tragedy. Now these girls have a better chance to graduate and do better in life. This is horrible. What is happening to our country?
 
WTF does contraception have to do with school?

What do free lunches have to to do with school? In my area, even during summer they are giving out free lunches.
 
Oh my god, how horrible. They are keeping kids in schools by preventing the number one reason why young girls drop out. What a tragedy. Now these girls have a better chance to graduate and do better in life. This is horrible. What is happening to our country?

It would appear to me the number one reason girls drop out from schools then is for being irresponsible and this is just a way out of that free of charge.
 
They are not your children. They are wards of the State, and they have granted you the pleasure of raising their children.

Yes, because they have now made it illegal for you to homeschool your children, and I read in some blog that you can be arrested for talking to them incorrectly. I think it was on HotAir.com, so you know it's true...

:lol:
 
IMO this is a bad decision by NYC. Raising kids to be responsible is a parent responsibilty.

Wonder if the teenagers are asking if they can have a 64oz soda with the pill? :mrgreen:
 
So, the principle is more important then the end result. Got it.

Life has a tendency to be annoying to those among us that always want a way out of our choices free of charge. I guess there is nothing like reinforcing bad behavior with an out of jail for free card.
 
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On one level I can understand this, but under no circumstances can I see this making sense without parental or judicial permission. This is after all, medication which requires a prescription (my assumption).
 
I agree with the program but i believe they need to let the parents know what is going on.
 
Plan B does not require a prescription and is sold from BEHIND the counter by the Pharmacist. There are no tests performed, I don't know why the Pharmacist has to dispense them but thats how it was in 2006 anyway. I lived with a "call-girl" and if the clients condom broke, she would buy a Plan B the next morning. I think there were some side effects like feeling crappy.

They sold for $25 so NYC is spending quite a bit on this. On the other hand, little Christina won't get preggers - that's probably a good thing.




On one level I can understand this, but under no circumstances can I see this making sense without parental or judicial permission. This is after all, medication which requires a prescription (my assumption).
 
Plan B does not require a prescription and is sold from BEHIND the counter by the Pharmacist. There are no tests performed, I don't know why the Pharmacist has to dispense them but thats how it was in 2006 anyway. I lived with a "call-girl" and if the clients condom broke, she would buy a Plan B the next morning. I think there were some side effects like feeling crappy.

They sold for $25 so NYC is spending quite a bit on this. On the other hand, little Christina won't get preggers - that's probably a good thing.

Because they're a heavy dose of a medication that can serious **** with your body and your head if you shouldn't be taking it . . . that's why it should be prescription only. Prescription = Dr's approval.

Also - it just seems retarded as hell to have BC to prevent pregnancy - be the whole 9 yards but the EC pill is just no big whoop even though it ends a pregnancy if it's started :roll:
 
I certainly hope that a pharmacist is the one dispensing it. I don't care if schools have a clinic or pharmacy that dispenses Plan B, but if someone is a minor their parents should be notified.
 
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