Thread: Schools dispensing birth control and Plan B

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Would you allow the school to give your kid's a medication like that? Do you think this is a good idea?

I think it's a good thing. As long as they are verifying with the parents in more ways than 1, I like the easy access to birth control. While I'm pro-life, I don't think Plan B actually kills a baby, so I'm also glad they have easy access to it. I do wonder if they follow up wiht the girl after giving her the Plan B to make sure she's OK though.

eta-I would opt out because I'd want a doctor to prescribe birth control my child was on, but for those who are too poor to take off work or to pay for the medication, I think this is a good practice.

Over all, I am not in support of someone else making decisions about my child. Whether it be spanking or passing out Birth Control without my knowledge. Oral BC requires a rx and should not be given out without parental consent. If the parents signed a consent form, then I would guess they could pass it out, but I would never sign that consent.

I think it's great because the better access to birth control, the fewer unwanted pregnancies there will be to deal with, and that IMHO is never a bad thing. And, in many states, parents don't need to give permission or even be notified of a teenager's sexual health decisions so I have no problem with it being done at school; it's not just handed out like candy in the cafeteria, it's prescribed by a nurse, which is who would probably be prescribing it at the teen clinic or Planned Parenthood anyway. And it saves the kids a trip to the doctor that they would have to find transportation & money to do.

Originally Posted by AlyssaEimers

Over all, I am not in support of someone else making decisions about my child.

This is not someone else making decisions about your child. It's your child making her own decision about her own reproductive rights & responsibilities.

I would at least want to know it is a possibility only so I know what to look out for but rx birth control and plan b don't really bother me. I would at least know my daughter(s) were getting appropriate options to them.

Originally Posted by Spacers

This is not someone else making decisions about your child. It's your child making her own decision about her own reproductive rights & responsibilities.

Then that would be the only thing about her health someone else was allowed to be a part of without your consent. You can't clip a kids toenails or cut their hair or pierce their ears without their parent's permission. It's silly to think reproductive "rights & repsonsibilities" should be less protected than any ohter medical decision.

crap. I read it wrong. I thought this was opt-in and it's opt-out. I think it should be opt-in.

Originally Posted by wlillie

Then that would be the only thing about her health someone else was allowed to be a part of without your consent. You can't clip a kids toenails or cut their hair or pierce their ears without their parent's permission. It's silly to think reproductive "rights & repsonsibilities" should be less protected than any ohter medical decision.

I personally don't want to go back to the days when a parent could force a daughter to have an abortion she didn't want, or when parents could sterilize a disabled child without that child's permission or when a parent could prevent a daughter from taking birth control pills if it violated their beliefs. Parents have a long time to instill their beliefs in their children. When or if a "child" (and we aren't talking about little kids, we're talking about teenagers) becomes sexually active, or wants to be, then he or she *IS* taking over the rights & responsibilities of his or her own body and his or her own beliefs about reproduction need to supercede those of the parents.

Originally Posted by Spacers

I personally don't want to go back to the days when a parent could force a daughter to have an abortion she didn't want, or when parents could sterilize a disabled child without that child's permission or when a parent could prevent a daughter from taking birth control pills if it violated their beliefs. Parents have a long time to instill their beliefs in their children. When or if a "child" (and we aren't talking about little kids, we're talking about teenagers) becomes sexually active, or wants to be, then he or she *IS* taking over the rights & responsibilities of his or her own body and his or her own beliefs about reproduction need to supercede those of the parents.

Teenagers are still a "child" until they turn 18 (19 in Nebraska) or do the paperwork to be emancipated. I'm the parent and I'm the one who has to deal with an accidental pregnancy because my teenager didn't thoroughly understand the directions given by the nurse about antibiotics/bcps. I'm the parent and I'm the one who has to deal with the aftermath emotionally from an abortion. I'm the parent and I'm the one who has to deal wiht a *CHILD* who has questions. I'd much rather know my kid is sexually active and be given the choice to prevent a pregnancy or worse than find out that my *CHILD* was given bcp by a nurse at their school and thought my child understood safe sex.