The Department of Education is giving morning-after pills and other birth-control drugs to students at 13 high schools, The Post has learned.
School nurse offices stocked with the contraceptives can dispense “Plan B” emergency contraception and other oral or injectable birth control to girls without telling their parents — unless parents opt out after getting a school informational letter about the new program.
While Big Apple high schools have long supplied free condoms to sexually active teens, this is the first time city schools have dispensed hormonal birth control and Plan B, which can prevent pregnancy if taken up to 72 hours after unprotected sex.
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.
This fall, students can also get Depo-Provera, a birth-control drug injected once every three months, officials said.
Oral and injectable contraceptives require prescriptions, which, in the CATCH program, are written by Health Department doctors.
Plan B is typically sold as an over-the-counter medication, but those under age 18 need a prescription. For the CATCH program, students can tell a trained school nurse they had unprotected sex. The student will then get a test to see if she is already pregnant; if not, the prescription is issued and she can walk out with the pill.
The city expanded CATCH to 14 schools with more than 22,000 students over the past year. Officials dropped one, Seward Park Campus in lower Manhattan, because CATCH was overwhelming the medical office.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_schools_plan_uow7ke5l2krwg43nh
were the letters sent home with the kids?
Were they mailed?
What if little latisha gets to the mailbox first?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_schools_plan_UoW7ke5l2KRwg43nH
were the letters sent home with the kids?
were they mailed?
what if little latisha gets to the mailbox first?
Can't the morning after pill have some serious side affects?
what if little latisha gets to the mailbox first?
Yes - it CAN and DOES. Just like all forms of birth control that are chemical or hormone based.
I don't believe that it should be even available OTC - if just birth control pills are by prescription only then so should the EC pill - it IS a birth control as far as it's composition goes - it's just in a concentrated form. They wouldn't hand out monthly lots of Yaz :roll:
It's highly dangerous to just assume anyone and everyone can just take it - there were several birth control pills I couldn't take because they would interfere with my other medications for health issues.
BC isn't always a casual thing. Pretending it is sends the wrong message and can put people at serious risk for a variety of ailments and side effects.
the program has covered its ass either way
now, less reason for unwanted pregnancies
would think your side would appreciate this; fewer future democrats to vote against the GOP candidates
fewer welfare recipients
what's not to like?
kudos to the catch program
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_schools_plan_UoW7ke5l2KRwg43nH
were the letters sent home with the kids?
were they mailed?
what if little latisha gets to the mailbox first?
WTF does contraception have to do with school?
Oh my god, how horrible. They are keeping kids in schools by preventing the number one reason why young girls drop out. What a tragedy. Now these girls have a better chance to graduate and do better in life. This is horrible. What is happening to our country?
It would appear to me the number one reason girls drop out from schools then is for being irresponsible and this is just a way out of that free of charge.
They are not your children. They are wards of the State, and they have granted you the pleasure of raising their children.
So, the principle is more important then the end result. Got it.
On one level I can understand this, but under no circumstances can I see this making sense without parental or judicial permission. This is after all, medication which requires a prescription (my assumption).
Plan B does not require a prescription and is sold from BEHIND the counter by the Pharmacist. There are no tests performed, I don't know why the Pharmacist has to dispense them but thats how it was in 2006 anyway. I lived with a "call-girl" and if the clients condom broke, she would buy a Plan B the next morning. I think there were some side effects like feeling crappy.
They sold for $25 so NYC is spending quite a bit on this. On the other hand, little Christina won't get preggers - that's probably a good thing.
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