-Caveat Lector- October 18, 2001
Schools Hand Out 'Morning After' Pill By Charles R. MiVille, Washington, D.C., correspondent http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0018198.html For over a year, public schools have been using tax dollars to distribute the so-called "morning-after" pill to teens. Now, pro-lifers in and out of Congress are working to ban the practice by hitting abortionists where it hurts the most - in the pocketbook. The abortion industry calls it "emergency contraception," but Carrie Gordon Earll, bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family, says it's more than that. "Once a pregnancy has occurred and you take this high dose of birth control pills, it is a chemical abortion," Earll said. Many public schools now distribute this so-called "morning after" pill to teens, but some members of Congress are trying to stop the practice with legislation that would block federal funding to any school that gives out the pill. "If you're going to do that, you can't have federal dollars," Earll said. "We are not going to give federal dollars to schools that distribute abortion pills to teen-age girls." Rep. Melissa Hart, R-Pa., had planned to offer the amendment to an appropriations bill last week, but withdrew it from consideration at the last minute at House Speaker Dennis Hastert's request. John Cusey, executive director of the congressional Pro-Life Caucus, said most parents don't know this is happening. "One of the most shocking things is people don't think that this is going on in schools," Cusey said. He noted that out of the 1,200 schools with clinics, 15 percent are giving out the drug. "At least 180 schools do this right now," he said. Earll added: "Schools have absolutely no business handing out morning after pills to teenage girls, especially without parental notification. . . . Schools are there to educate our children they are not there to encourage promiscuity and the types of behavior that are going to lead girls into risky behavior." Some schools give out the drug without a prescription. Earll and Cusey say one of the dangers of the morning after pill is that it creates a false sense of security. They say teens need to be warned of the severe health risks from the drugs as well as the danger of catching sexually transmitted diseases. [Forwarded For Information Purposes Only - Not Necessarily Endorsed By The Sender - A.K. Pritchard] ------------------------------ A.K. Pritchard The Republican Web pages and email list "And to the Republic for which it stands" http://members.ll.net/chiliast/ God, Guns, Government & History http://members.ll.net/chiliast/GGGH/index2.html Republic USA http://www.republicusa.org/ To Join The Republican Email List mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject=JOIN body=SUBSCRIBE To Leave The Republican Email List mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject=LEAVE body=UNSUBSCRIBE "... our efforts as educators must not be directed to restoring the past order of morality but to participating in creating a new one... when it is shed there will be a new moral order to take it's place... a counterculture that will burst through the surface." (Roberta T. Ash; "Durkheim's Moral Education Reconsidered: Toward the Creation of a Counterculture". In SCHOOL REVIEW, November, 1971, p. 112) ------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from this list, please click the link below. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=LEAVE&body=UNSUBSCRIBE <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
