Posted on 04/16/2017 10:33:25 PM PDT by Morgana
TULSA, Oklahoma, April 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — An Oklahoma mother allowed her daughter to go on an educational field trip only to have her return with a three-year chemical contraceptive implant inside her arm.
Langston Hughes Academy hosts an annual sex-ed class by Youth Services of Tulsa. When Miracle Foster's daughter wanted to learn more, she allowed her to visit the clinic.
But Youth Services of Tulsa is part of the Tulsa Area Teen Pregnancy Prevention Collaborative, whose PregNOT program began in 2010 with $1.5 million in tax funding from the Obama Health and Human Services' Office of Adolescent Health. Its stated goal is to reduce pregnancy among poor youth ages 11-19 via "youth-friendly" contraceptives.
The government agency surgically implanted the dangerous Norplant chemical birth control device inside Foster's daughter's arm, according to Foster.
Youth Services of Tulsa argued that they legally do not have to tell a parent when contraceptives are implanted inside schoolchildren. Title X allows for youth as young as age 12 to receive "birth control” — even abortifacient contraceptives — without a parent's consent.
The Academy principal also defended the action, saying the school merely transported teens to the clinic. Principal Rodney L. Clark released a statement saying "The student was well within her rights of Title X, which is a federal guideline that provides reduced-cost family planning services to persons of all reproductive age."
“I just feel like my rights as a parent were violated,” a distraught Foster told local Fox station KOKI. "I feel like the school is responsible. I think they should’ve given us more information, because like I said, I thought she was going to get information. … So, therefore, she could come back home and we could discuss what was best for my child.”
"I think that is something that a mother and a daughter should discuss," Foster said, weeping.
Youth Service of Tulsa has been in “partnership” with Langston Hughes Academy since 2013.
Church Militant asked Clark if parents were given an opt-out form to remove their children from the annual sex-ed class. Clark said an opt-out form was provided by Youth Services of Tulsa. But Foster said she never received an opt-out form. Instead, she said Clark called her for permission to allow her daughter to visit the clinic.
Youth Services of Tulsa refused to answer questions, but the receptionist said she didn't know of any opt-out form for parents.
Church Militant further pressed Clark regarding how his school made sure parents knew what was being taught in the sex-ed class and what would be conveyed in the trip to the clinic. "We put out a statement," Clark responded. "I'm really not going to answer any more questions in regard to that."
Foster said she has not only been offended as a parent but has been deeply hurt by the whole incident. "So many people are saying negative stuff," she said. "This has really taken a toll on me, seriously."
President Richard Nixon enacted Title X, which funds contraception for minorities and those in poverty, as part of the Public Health Service Act in 1970. By 2010, Title X was disbursing $317 million in tax dollars, with Planned Parenthood receiving $80 million. Nixon believed in the "population explosion" myth. His administration inaugurated the Commission on Population Growth.
Planned Parenthood has been criticized for targeting minorities and "undesirables," as founder Margaret Sanger called those she sought to sterilize. Foster is black.
This week, the Republican-led U.S. Congress passed a bill to allow states to redirect Title X funds away from Planned Parenthood.
Cassius Kamarampi of The Mind Unleashed commented, "The U.S. government has a long history of attempting to control the reproduction of citizens. … Because some powers seem to be obsessed with curbing population growth, lawmakers found it a priority to legalize children receiving contraceptives without parental permission."
"As a 21-year-old American who remembers sexual education in Texas, I know for a fact that they fear-monger about STDs, push vaccination for HPV, contraceptives, and anything else they can in these so called lessons," Kamarampi continued. "I can personally tell you that several people were coerced into getting contraceptive implants in sexual education at my middle school in central Texas, and highly dangerous Gardasil vaccines were pushed as well, in 2009. I saw young, impressionable peers receive a sales pitch, and fear-mongering about HPV."
The Norplant contraceptive implant has been connected to several health problems. Its chemical, Levonorgestrel, causes severe hormonal changes and cervical cysts. The implants have been known to dislodge and get lost in the woman's body, and in some cases cause permanent sterility.
Within six years of Norplant's 1990 FDA approval, more than 6,000 women filed complaints of "adverse medical consequences," including heavy bleeding and vision impairment. Some overseas women were bedridden for months, some literally went blind, and some died because population control officials refused to remove the implants.
Norplant was taken off the U.S. market in 2002, but manufacturer Wyeth-Ayerst continued to produce it with U.S. tax dollars for vulnerable poor women in Third World countries until 2006. A new manufacturer, Bayer Healthcare, has renamed the drug and contracted with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to manufacture and distribute it to international population control groups.
I know some freepers detest birth control pills...and I’m not catholic but low level ones like Yasmin seem fairly harmless when young
They are just female hormones on certain days in the dispenser...not everyday
One link I do put credence in is cigarettes
My wife’s best friend was on birth control non stop for 35 years and smoked
Died suddenly from heart attack at 50
God designed women to be most healthy and reproduce under proper commitments
Do that and things look brighter girls
Confusing story/names...here is a news report with no “Church Militant” in it:
Beware the “Field Trip”....just say no if you are the parent.
Well, I’m not going to sit here and pound my chest and say what I would do if I were the parent and someone did that to my kid.
BUT, if any outraged parent decided Title X doesn’t mean beans to him and that he was not about to let the principal and/or the counselor “opt out” of his enforcement of Title 1911, and if I were on the jury, my vote would be “Not Guilty!” Period. You don’t mess with people’s kids. Who do these jackals think they are?
I’m not anti-birth control, but when my daughter starts on them someone will have to monitor her. We are hoping that they will actually make it better for her, but hormine changes are seizure triggers.
She’s much more aware of what’s happenning now. She’s done lots of research and she is much more in tune with her body.
If someone would have given anything to her as a kid, I would havery been furious!
Yes. It's called Public School.
there would be no hell to pay because you have no rights.
The Courts removed parental rights of children sent to government schools a long time ago. they control your children when they are in your care, you have nothing.
Most parents do not realize this.
School counselors have taken teens for abortions during school hours and the children have come home at the end of the school day, hemmorrraged and died. Neither the schools, nor the school employees are liable.
We live in sick times.
All the subject teen had to do is indicate she was sexually active.
Bazinga!......birth control implant in arm.
They not gonna waste the lives of our gurls with mudderhood!
Parents no longer matter.
Get it?
I probably don’t have to guess who this woman voted for in the past 3 elections. If our side would simply COMMUNICATE who the targets of the birth control and abortion pushers are, we’d probably get some respect in those communities...but we don’t.
From the first part of the article, the mother allowed her to go so that she could learn more about contraception, and then they could discuss what was right for her daughter. So, she knows her daughter, probably middle school, is sexually active. I don’t know why I’m supposed to be outraged over the fact that she now has contraception, and she won’t have to “remember” to take a daily pill. I’m glad Shaneequa is on contraception! How many more single mothers with fatherless children do we NEED in our African communities? Are we running low?
I would have broken all of the Clinic operator’s fingers and also those of the school principal and whichever teacher(s) led the trip.
Then demanded trial by a jury of my peers.
This *^&^%*# has to STOP!
So momma is disappointed she can’t have an illegitimate grandchild to bring in a welfare check?
Exactly.
I understand why she’s be upset about the implant and that was wrong, but she agreed to send her daughter on a “sex ed” public school field trip.
What parental rights? you deceive yourself, woman! The government says you have no rights, only obligations. You get to pay the bills and bear the financial responsibility for their actions, but you don’t get to say if they believe in a certain religion, have sex, get to watch explicit sex “education” videos, have an abortion, get a sex “change” operation. Nope.
The ultimate goal of the left is to destroy the family. The only little problem is that a man and a woman are still needed to make a baby, but they’re working on a way to eliminate that.
I am asking because for as long as I can remember, ( I am in my 70s) parents have been raising “hell” about and toward the schools and the Marxists that run them get increasingly bolder.
Answer:
—Compulsory government schooling was a progressive idea in the beginning.
—Progressives have **always** controlled teacher training and curriculum.
—Progressives in education have **always** been pushing at the edges of society's morals and ethics.
—Progressives have always pushed for greater and greater atheistic secularism.
Solution: Begin the process of completely privatizing all schooling.
The lack of sex education is not the reason for the high incidence of pregnancy and STDS. One can know everything there is to know about the digestive system and still get hungry. You can also know everything there is to know about sex and you will still get horny. It all depends on self control or the lack thereof. This should be taught at home, and it appears this mom wanted it to remain so.
School officials act as if you have no parental rights and they will harm you (get you arrested and get a restraining order on you) if you raise cain with them.
I have not been paying attention to the law on parental rights since my children became adults. I don’t know that parents still have the right to make medical decisions for their own kids. Obamacare...?
Church Militant is a Catholic conservative group worth following.
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