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.
CATCH — Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive Health — is part of a citywide attack against the epidemic of teen pregnancy, which spurs many girls — most of them poor — to drop out of school.
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.
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How can a person get a free condom from a “vending” machine? Vend means “to sell.”
The machines being installed in the school district of Philadelphia are dispensaries, a name that clearly carries a clinical connotation. The purpose of these dispensaries is to distribute condoms which is totally in sync with our new fangled socialized healthcare. Since condoms can save lives, it is one of the few aspects of the age that makes much sense.
The pills being distributed by some schools in NY have the opposite effect. Contrary to the article, the morning after pill does not prevent pregnancy, it kills it. That is not controlling birth, that is murdering unborns.