Schools Implant IUDs in Girls as Young as 6th Grade Without Their Parents Knowing

[Markinsa]

Schools Implant IUDs in Girls as Young as 6th Grade Without Their Parents Knowing

 

State   Steven Ertelt, Rebecca Downs   Jul 2, 2015   |   4:28PM    Seattle, WA

 

Earlier this month, LifeNews.com reported on a high school in Seattle, Washington that is now implanting intrauterine devices (IUD), as well as other forms of birth control and doing so without parental knowledge or permission.

 

The IUD is known as a long acting reversible contraception, and may even act as an abortifacient. So, a young teen in Seattle can’t get a coke at her high school, but she can have a device implanted into her uterus, which can unknowingly kill her unborn child immediately after conception. Or, if she uses another method, she can increase her chances of health risks for herself, especially if using a new method.

 

The high school, Chief Sealth International, a public school, began offering the devices in 2010, made possible by a Medicaid program known as Take Charge and a non-profit, Neighborcare. Students can receive the device or other method free of cost and without their parent’s insurance. And while it’s lauded that the contraception is confidential, how can it be beneficial for a parent-child relationship when the parents don’t even know the devices or medication their daughter is using?

 

As it turns out, Chief Sealth isn’t the only school in Seattle doing this. As CNS News reports, more schools are fitting young girls — as young as 6th grade — with the devices and doing so without their parents knowing.

 

Middle and high school students can’t get a Coca-Cola or a candy bar at 13 Seattle public schools, but they can get a taxpayer-funded intrauterine device (IUD) implanted without their parents’ consent.

 

School-based health clinics in at least 13 Seattle-area public high schools and middle schools offer long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), including IUDs and hormonal implants, to students in sixth-grade and above at no cost, according to Washington State officials.

 

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.

 

The state and federally funded contraceptive services are made possible by Take Charge, a Washington State Medicaid program which provides free birth control to adults who are uninsured, lack contraceptive coverage, have an income at or below 260 percent of the Federal Poverty Level — or, in this case, to teens who don’t want their parents to know they’re on birth control.

 

In an email exchange with the Washington State Health Care Authority and CNSNews.com, a Take Charge spokesperson acknowledged that underage students are eligible for a “full array of covered family planning services” at school-based clinics if their parents meet the program’s requirements.

 

Take Charge added that “a student who does not want their parents to know they are seeking reproductive health services is allowed to apply for Take Charge using their own income, and if they are insured under their parents’ plan, the insurance would not be billed.”

 

When asked if a sixth grader could get an IUD implanted without parental consent, Take Charge told CNSNews.com: “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.”

 

Parents, if you have children in these schools, you need to investigate and complain immediately. And all parents ought to take a look at the health policies of their young daughters’ schools to find out if a similar program is in place where you live.

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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... this is beyond the pale.....  horrific....

 

especially considering the ramifications/failures/ side effects of some of these 'devices'...

 

this is disgusting.

 

whatta ya bet they implant a mark-of-the-beast tracker at the same time.... whats to stop them from doing THAT ?

[Barbara020548]

Lies, lies and more lies... Fabrications, fabrications and more fabrications... However, you can get Sarah Palin's daughter to give an "appropriate behavior" seminar on early "sexual behavior", since she is the Republican poster-child for what every teenager should aspire to be.

[pattyangel]

Never say never with this government.  Its a Medicaid program offering it.  What's that tell you.  They're targeting low income families.  Blacks, browns and yes whites.  I guess this their way of getting rid of the population.   

 

By the way Barbara if you look up to any politician or teach your children to look up to a politician, athlete, celebrity, your in for a rude awakening.  Whether it be Demo, or Rep, we should never look to them to mold our character, personality, and our moral way living.   

[DoD]

Barbara, I bet you would really rather have Bruce Jenner give his (her) seminar on "sexual behavior" since he (she) represents the true left winged liberal approach to todays "appropriate behavior"....an that is not lies, lies, lies

Edited July 3, 2015 by DoD

[TexasGranny]

Lies, lies and more lies... Fabrications, fabrications and more fabrications... However, you can get Sarah Palin's daughter to give an "appropriate behavior" seminar on early "sexual behavior", since she is the Republican poster-child for what every teenager should aspire to be.

 

Google is your friend - Slamming Sarah Palin's daughter for her personal actions is a perfect example of the liberal avoidance to discuss the issue at hand. The topic is about 6th graders being implanted with IUD's without parental consent. So, you must be okay with the school and/or government deciding what is best for your child.

 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/kathleen-brown/seattle-6th-graders-cant-get-coke-school-can-get-iud

 

Seattle 6th Graders Can’t Get a Coke at School, But Can Get an IUD

By Kathleen Brown | July 1, 2015 | 11:07 AM EDT

Intrauterine device (IUD). (AP photo)

(CNSNews.com) --  Middle and high school students can’t get a Coca-Cola or a candy bar at 13 Seattle public schools, but they can get a taxpayer-funded intrauterine device (IUD) implanted without their parents’ consent.

School-based health clinics in at least 13 Seattle-area public high schools and middle schools offer long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), including IUDs and hormonal implants, to students in sixth-grade and above at no cost, according to Washington State officials.

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.

The state and federally funded contraceptive services are made possible by Take Charge, a Washington State Medicaid program which provides free birth control to adults who are uninsured, lack contraceptive coverage, have an income at or below 260 percent of the Federal Poverty Level -- or, in this case, to teens who don’t want their parents to know they’re on birth control.

In an email exchange with the Washington State Health Care Authority and CNSNews.com, a Take Charge spokesperson acknowledged that underage students are eligible for a “full array of covered family planning services” at school-based clinics if their parents meet the program’s requirements.

Take Charge added that “a student who does not want their parents to know they are seeking reproductive health services is allowed to apply for Take Charge using their own income, and if they are insured under their parents’ plan, the insurance would not be billed.”

When asked if a sixth grader could get an IUD implanted without parental consent, Take Charge told CNSNews.com: “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 while the students can’t get a soda from the cafeteria due to the Seattle School Board’s 2004 ban on junk food, they can get an IUD implanted at their school’s health center without their parents’ knowledge or permission.  

According to the Washington State Medicaid website, health centers at four middle schools and nine high schools in Seattle participate in the Take Charge program. Other Take Charge providers are located in close proximity to schools.

“We have public health departments, community-based clinics, college and university clinics, pediatric clinics, private physician practices, and family planning clinics, like Planned Parenthood” as providers,Take Charge said in the email exchange. A total of 38 Planned Parenthood clinics participate in the Take Charge program.

Seattle school-based clinics participating in the program include 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.

 

 

 

“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 byNeighborcare 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?”

Washington State law grants any individual “a fundamental right of privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions.”

A 2014 Washington University study “document[ed] the activities of the reproductive health educator and trends in teen LARC uptake” at clinics participating in the Take Charge program in West Seattle High School and Chief Sealth International High School. School-based health providers, Neighborcare administrators, public health officials, and community partners were interviewed.

Researchers found that “school-based health providers often cited their lack of formal training not only in inserting or removing IUDs and contraceptive implants, but also with the procedures in general.”

One health care provider who was interviewed reportedly commented: “It’s still scary to begin putting them in. Scary meaning that we know the biggest complication risk come with the least experienced providers. So how do you take that leap and just go for it?” 

 

 

 

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Any female that has used these devices can tell you of the many health problems encountered. To not let the parents know so they can watch for problems is inexcusable.

 

 

 

 

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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TXGRANNY keepin' it real up in here !  Thank you, Ma'am !

[cottn68]

Lies, lies and more lies... Fabrications, fabrications and more fabrications... However, you can get Sarah Palin's daughter to give an "appropriate behavior" seminar on early "sexual behavior", since she is the Republican poster-child for what every teenager should aspire to be.

Wow, sure pulled that one from deep within the old sphincter huh?

So in true libtard fashion, a govt program that puts contraceptive

devices in minor children WITHOUT parental knowledge, much less

consent, is A OK since Sarah Palin's daughter speaks at seminars?

[Jim1cor13]

The reaches of government seem to have no end to their violations.

 

Kids are being pushed into that box created for them, they are no

longer allowed to be kids. The idea that this is going on is sick, yet

how many parents are not aware of it? Amazing the degree of

intrusion that some people tolerate from the tyrants under the

illusion that they are "doing this for the children". Politicians

love that statement. How far will it go until parental permission means

nothing? I think we are there already. Next will be forced medications

for whatever reason they want to come up with. Insanity at its finest.

[EagleEye]

If one reads and follows the dots...this is the end result AS PROPOSED by Margaret Sanger Harris ..founder of Planned Parenthood...and often dubbed the "Father of American Eugenics" (...can you say HITLER !)....By the way...educate yourselves concerning Seicus...Nambla....and The Humanist Manifestos....and cross reference your Bible to see how deep we are into the End Times....

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

If one reads and follows the dots...this is the end result AS PROPOSED by Margaret Sanger Harris ..founder of Planned Parenthood...and often dubbed the "Father of American Eugenics" (...can you say HITLER !)....By the way...educate yourselves concerning Seicus...Nambla....and The Humanist Manifestos....and cross reference your Bible to see how deep we are into the End Times....

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One will also find what a RACIST BIGOT she was and how she targeted minorities .

 

Yet she's still touted as a darling of the left... go figure....

 

 

They don't get it, just like when they tell minorities that The Repubs are their enemies,

 

when in fact it is the demoncrats who USE, ABUSE and disenfranchise them.

 

 

Can't cure stupid.  And can only barely tolerate IGNORANCE.

 

 

 

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Edited July 4, 2015 by SgtFuryUSCZ

[SherryB]

This is about teens and pre-teens not choosing abstinence.   The morals and values in todays world have sunk so low, and parents of these children apparently don't care or they would do something about it themselves.  It is not the government's place to take care of our children, but unfortunately there are way too many parents who won't or can't take care of their own.  The biggest problem with this planned parenting program is that it does not require parent's consent.  That is totally wrong and I can't see the reasoning behind it.