Girls at 13 NYC Schools Get Morning After Pills, No Parental Permission

Amazing...Bloomberg won't let anyone buy a super-size soda, but he'll give teens free birth control without their parents' consent.

he New York City Department of Education is furnishing morning-after pills and other birth control drugs to students at 13 city high schools and without parental permission.

School nurses supplied with the drugs, which can cause a very early abortion, are dispensing “Plan B” and other oral or injectable birth control to girls as young as 14 without telling their parents — unless the parents opt out of the program after receiving a school letter informing them of the new policy.

According to a Fox News report, New York City high schools have supplied free condoms to teens in the past, but this is the first time city schools have given the birth control drugs that come under Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Health, known as CATCH, which is part of a city-wide pregnancy prevention program.

The New York Post has more on the situation:

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.

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