Friday, December 30, 2005
Part IV - Personal PAC Questionnaire -- Taxpayer-Financed Birth Control, Regardless of Age
Sounds harmless, doesn’t it?
Unless your Crystal Lake 14-year-old is brought under the influence of a junior high school teacher who is too cheap or too lazy to buy condoms and begins taking your daughter to the McHenry County Health Department for shots of Deprovera. And, the heath department folks apparently couldn’t figure out or didn’t care that a girl not old enough to drive was coming in for the shots on a Saturday, when PACE buses did not run from Crystal Lake to the courthouse complex.
When the teacher, William Saturday decided to get married, the girl, with whom he had sexual relations after she graduated from middle school, blew the whistle on him and off to jail he went.
The resulting scandal led the McHenry County Board to be the first in the country to reject federal birth control money because federal bureaucrats wrote rules requiring those accepting its money not to discriminate on the basis of age.
On to parental involvement prior to issuing birth control. Personal PAC claims
So, would you opposed mandating parental consent or notification before your child can get taxpayer-financed birth control?
And, what about “quality, comprehensive and fully-funded required sexuality education in public schools?” No indication what year your kids will see a condom being put over a banana, of course.
And, how about “allowing school-based health clinics, with local community support (of course), to prescribe or dispense birth control to students?”
To return to McHenry County Blog, click here.
Unless your Crystal Lake 14-year-old is brought under the influence of a junior high school teacher who is too cheap or too lazy to buy condoms and begins taking your daughter to the McHenry County Health Department for shots of Deprovera. And, the heath department folks apparently couldn’t figure out or didn’t care that a girl not old enough to drive was coming in for the shots on a Saturday, when PACE buses did not run from Crystal Lake to the courthouse complex.
When the teacher, William Saturday decided to get married, the girl, with whom he had sexual relations after she graduated from middle school, blew the whistle on him and off to jail he went.
The resulting scandal led the McHenry County Board to be the first in the country to reject federal birth control money because federal bureaucrats wrote rules requiring those accepting its money not to discriminate on the basis of age.
On to parental involvement prior to issuing birth control. Personal PAC claims
“Current publicly funded family planning programs annually 386,000 unintended births to teenagers, avoiding 155,000 tenage births and 183,000 abortions. While most tens inform a parent of their use of reproductive health services, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that 80% of teens who don’t would discontinue care if required to and fewer than 1 in 100 would discontinue sexual relations. The result of mandatory parental involvement in contraceptive care would be large increases among teens in undiagnosed and untreated sexually transmitted diseases, more teenage pregnancies, births & abortions.”
So, would you opposed mandating parental consent or notification before your child can get taxpayer-financed birth control?
And, what about “quality, comprehensive and fully-funded required sexuality education in public schools?” No indication what year your kids will see a condom being put over a banana, of course.
And, how about “allowing school-based health clinics, with local community support (of course), to prescribe or dispense birth control to students?”
To return to McHenry County Blog, click here.
# posted by Cal Skinner : 2:24 PM
