Planned Parenthood goes to high school and RWer's heads explode...

[cynatnite]

Planned Parenthood has teamed up with the Los Angeles Unified School District to run a clinic at a public high school, offering students free and confidential birth control, counseling, pregnancy tests, and screening for sexually transmitted diseases. The program at Roosevelt High School — the first of its kind — was designed to help cut the school's unusually high teen pregnancy rates. Legally, teens don't need parental permission to visit the clinic, a fact that incenses some parents, who have pounced on the decision to let Planned Parenthood, a frequent target of anti-abortion activists, on campus. Is Los Angeles unwisely inviting a culture war battle in its schools, or is this something other states should consider, too?

Let's hope this idea catches on: This "sounds like a completely reasonable solution to a very real problem," says Cassie Murdoch at Jezebel. The school is in a heavily Latino, low-income area that has been one of L.A.'s "hotspots for teen pregnancies," and a program that offered reproductive health care in conjunction with a local hospital ended in 2006. Having Planned Parenthood fill the gap "seems like a natural pairing" that other schools in need could mimic.

This is a recipe for disaster: Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest provider of abortions, says Bryan Kemper at LifeNews. It's mind-boggling that they could be allowed to set up "inside the walls of a public high school." Los Angeles is sidestepping parents and giving Planned Parenthood "front-row access" to their kids so it can peddle its deadly cycle: "Sex, condoms, abortion," repeat. Moms and dads everywhere should be outraged.

You can't argue with success: The school was in a crisis after its old reproductive health program ended, says Amanda Peterson Beadle at Think Progress. The school nurse asked for Planned Parenthood's help after seeing 32 positive pregnancy tests in one three-month period in 2008. Nationally, the teen pregnancy rate has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years, and researchers credit better contraception use by teenagers. Agree with it or not, giving students information and contraception undeniably works.

http://news.yahoo.com/planned-parenthood-allowed-schools-134000609.html

[cynatnite]

1. Kicking because it's important. n/t

[RC]

2. It is, and this is DU, so this thread will sink like a rock.

Good for Planned Parenthood. They need to go into schools all over the nation and do the same thing.

[Meiko]

5. Never gonna happen

There are a lot of schools that will never allow it.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Yes it is... kick. (n/t)

[Suich]

3. What a great idea!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. But..but..teenagers aren't even interested in sex until PP tells them about it.

The boys are playing baseball and the girls are learning to bake cookies. And, they all know that they aren't to touch certain parts of their bodies and never touch certain parts of other people's bodies. And, that babies are made by God that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

[RC]

7. Some people actually believe this.

...sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

How some people can hold such opposite thoughts in their head and at the same time be serous, is a real wonder to behold.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. Orwell outlined it in...

"1984". Even so, it still amazes me that doublethink can work for some.

[Zoeisright]

8. According to medical ethics, mature minors can certainly make their own

healthcare decisions. If repukes don't like it, they can shove it up their asses.

[baldguy]

9. They don't want kids to have kids,

but they don't want to be responsible for anything that might prevent it. And they want to make it impossible for the kids to be responible themselves.

[Bolo Boffin]

10. "Sex, Condoms, Abortion, Repeat."

I believe someone's unclear on the concept.

[yewberry]

11. Oh, my gosh, responding to a real problem with a solution! The nerve!

It's mind-boggling that rabid pro-lifers would find this mind-boggling.

Good heavens, let's not prevent pregnancies, for the love of pete!