New York City High Schools Dispensing 'Plan B' to 14 Year Old Girls is Social Lunacy

9/30/2012

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kind of "officious interloper" in the womb in some instances. In effect, the mother evicts her own child.

The Pontifical Academy wrote: "It is clear, therefore, that the proven "anti-implantation" action of the morning-after pill is really nothing other than a chemically induced abortion. It is neither intellectually consistent nor scientifically justifiable to say that we are not dealing with the same thing."

The U.S. Federal Government has unilaterally decided to define pregnancy as beginning at implantation not fertilization. They have now become the purveyor of a kind of new profane secular immorality posing as morality. Their sanctioning of what can be a lethal act seems intended to provide consolation to the woman who may be ejecting the very human life seeking to develop and grow within their womb

"Plan B" is one more weapon against life in the culture of death. It is also another sign of our moral decay. A culture comfortable with viewing persons as products to be used rather than unrepeatable gifts to be received from the Giver of all life views human life, when inconvenient, as something to be discarded.

In our foreign policy we understandably search the world for weapons of mass destruction before they can cause untold tragedy. Yet, in our domestic policy we seem eager to approve "pre-emptive" chemical concoctions for women - and now for girls. An agency of the most powerful government on the earth seems all too eager to equip children to possibly kill children.

As Christians, we proclaim the God who became Incarnate in the womb of a young woman; Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. This Jesus walked the way of every human person at every stage of development throughout the continuum of human life. That included taking that extraordinary journey into the first home of the whole human race, his Mother's womb, and living it what was once the safest place on earth. Now, that once safe place is bombarded with chemical weapons.

Does it make sense to give 14 yr old girls a chemical weapon to ingest? This "emergency contraceptive", may result in the eviction of an embryonic human person. Even if it does not, does it send the correct signal about the dignity of every human life and about that girls own dignity? Does its distribution respect the role of parents and serve the common good? To dispense "Plan B" to 14 year old girls in High School is social lunacy.

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Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for January 2013
General Intention: The Faith of Christians. That in this Year of Faith Christians may deepen their knowledge of the mystery of Christ and witness joyfully to the gift of faith in him.
Missionary Intention: Middle Eastern Christians. That the Christian communities of the Middle East, often discriminated against, may receive from the Holy Spirit the strength of fidelity and perseverance.

Keywords: Plan B, New York City, High Schools, Contraception, abortion, Nanny State, Anti-Life, culture war, parental rights, Deacon Keith Fournier

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Beth
8 months ago
I looked up the age-of-consent laws in NY state. The legal age of consent for sexual activity is 17. There are some exceptions for partners who are close in age (less than four years apart - exceptions like these are often called "Romeo and Juliet" clauses) - but without being able to determine the age of a girl's sexual partner, how is it that these school employees are not going to be potentially guilty of accessory to the crime of statutory rape by administering these drugs to girls under age 17? If a 14-year-old girl has sex with a 19-year-old man, a crime has been committed according to the laws of NY state. But, as we know, the ones pushing contraceptives without parental consent - both in and out of school - don't give a hoot about statutory rape. Apparently, the only consequences worth avoiding are pregnancy and STDs. The emotional and spiritual consequences of early sexual involvement are of no concern, because these folks are in denial that they exist at all.
Beth
8 months ago
Not to mention the fact that many 14-year-old girls are having sex with men, not underage boys. Sure, honey, go ahead and just take this little pill and everything will be fine. Liars.
Tom
8 months ago
Their view is that they will not discuss morals, and cannot "prove" that kids having sex is "wrong" any other way. Therefore, they seek to prevent another generation of unwanted children with condoms and pills. They new "right versus wrong" is "protected or unprotected" sex. But it isn't working. By age 18, many girls who have been used and discarded by drive-by boyfriends will choose to have a baby, so they can have at least one person in their lives whose love is genuine. The 40% illegitimate birth rate isn't made from people who didn't know about pills and abortions. That stopped in the 80's when "go for it" sex education became the norm. If you want this fixed, you have to get the children themselves to understand that all that casual sex has other damage to them besides pregnancy and STD's. Older readers here may remember when drunk driving wasn't taken seriously. It took MADD to get enough attention, that now most normal people care enough not to do it. We need something like that.
vance
8 months ago
My question is, "Where is the Church leadership on this issue?" Yes, we heard from the Holy Father The Pope ((( BUT ))) we hear absolutely ((( NOTHING ))) from Cardinal Dolan or any of the other Bishops and priests. I hear push back from Conservative Talk Show hosts but again absolute silence from the Pulpit or airwaves from our Church Leadership. Could they by chance approve of "Plan B"? If not, please let me know. I won't hold my breath waiting for a response.
DLL
8 months ago
When 14year old girls start having strokes because of birth control drugs,than it will be an outrage.
John
8 months ago
What's happening to our schools . We send the chuildren to be educated and not to take the place of parents. Our public schools should be concerned with education and teach our children how to be Men and Women. How to behave in public, how to dress;, have you ever seen some of the teens dressed for school, you think it'e halloween!!! Teachers do your duty and let the parents be parents!!
JeanCatherine
8 months ago
I am not a parent and probably shouldnt answer here but... I was a young girl once and parents are going to have to reach their children on this subject.
Jennifer
8 months ago
I think the bigger issue here is that we are sending a message to all our children that it is now ok to have sex at even a younger age than before. The goverment, along with our school systems and especially parents should be working together to better equip society that abstininence is the only way to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. I will say that when I was 14yo that I did get pregnant. I felt pressured by my boyfriend at the time to have sex and all I wanted was someone to love me. After I finally told my mother, she made an appointment for me to get an abortion. I would have been 4 months pregnant at the time. God thankfully helped me in my decision to finally stand up to my mother and refused the abortion. Against all odds, I stayed in school and started the process of finding adoptive partents for my son. I was only a child and was not able to raise on myself. To this day, it was the hardest thing that I have ever done, but was the greatest gift that God Himself could have given me.

I think instead of having sex education classes in our schools, they need to help children, and their parents, realize the benefits of abstinence. Our tax payer dollars would be better at work.
Kathy
8 months ago
Whatever happened to teaching our young girls not to have sex. We as a country put a bandaid on everything. The real issue, is that young children are having unprotected sex...without consequenses. I am 50 yrs old. At age 14 or 15, I was only interested in school and playing volleyball...and church......boys were the farthest thing from my mind. None of my friends thought this way either. I guess, I really do not understand what has happened to our youth, and those in charge, that would condone such behavior, and then administer a drug that would possibly kill a baby. If we do not watch out, Satan will be in total control of this country. Get out and VOTE!!!
Kasoy
8 months ago
The US government, whenever a Democrat president is sitting in Washington, pushes contraception and abortion programs in less developed countries in Latin American and Asian countries through USAID in cooperation with UN's WHO and multinational contraceptive manufacturers. Abortion and contraception agenda then become the legislative priority in those nations. During the Bush and Reagan administrations, such agenda went to the backburner until a Democrat got elected as president.

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