Schools Give Young Girls Taxpayer Funded Birth Control Implants Without Parental Consent

By: Laura Meyers

In Washington state, kids being taught inaccurate American history being will soon be the least of parents’ worries about the public school system.

Some middle and high schools in Washington are working together with a Medicaid program sponsored by Planned Parenthood, known as Take Charge, and a non-Profit, Neighborcare, in order to provide young girls with taxpayer-funded intrauterine devices (IUD), a form of birth control, implants without requiring parental consent.

It was reported that Chief Sealth International, a public high school in Seattle, began offering the IUD’s to girls in 2010. Students can receive the device or other methods of birth control free of cost and without their parent’s consent or insurance.

Now, not only are high schools participating in the partnership, several middle schools have jumped on board.

Here’s a list of participating schools: Aki Kurose Middle School, Washington Middle School, Denny Middle School, Madison Middle School, Franklin High School, Nathan Hale High School, Roosevelt High School, West Seattle High School, Garfield High School, Ingraham High School, Rainier Beach High School, South Lake High School, and Chief Sealth International High School.

Typical middle schools include grades 6-8. When asked if a sixth grader could get an IUD implanted without parental consent, Take Charge said, “We encourage all Take Charge providers to offer long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) in their clinics. A young person does not need parental consent to obtain a LARC or any other contraceptive method…If the young person is not choosing abstinence, she would be able to select a LARC and have it inserted without parental consent.”

So yeah, if a sexually active 11-year-old, sixth grade girl wants to get a taxpayer-funded IUD implanted into her uterus without her parents’ consent, provided by her public school, that’s an okay thing now I guess.

The biggest problem I see here is the general medical risk of an IUD. Several studies have linked IUD’s to an increased risk of pelvic infections and infertility. Not to mention, the device is difficult to use simultaneously with condoms, which would help prevent sexually transmitted diseases.

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An intrauterine device (IUD)

Public schools in Seattle have banned soda, but hey, at least there’s free birth control?

To access such resources, students can go to nearby health clinics that are located near each school.

“Because we’re at the school, which is so wonderful, we have access to the students, and they have access to us, pretty much any time,” said Katie Acker, a health educator at two high school clinics run by Neighborcare Health, which participates in the Take Charge program.

“We will send them a pass for whatever class is easiest or best to get out of. Of course, there are always students who are like, ‘I wanna miss IB Math!’ We are not gonna pull you out of IB Math — how about ceramics instead?”

In sixth grade I think I would have much rather just stayed in ceramics.

 

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