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Tuesday June 20, 2006
Mother of 13-Year-Old Girl Given Emergency Contraception Without Her Knowledge Outraged
By Gudrun Schultz
ROCHESTER, New York, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) –
The mother of a thirteen-year-old girl who was given a prescription for emergency contraception by her school nurse without her mother’s knowledge is outraged that her daughter was able to obtain the contraceptive, WROCTV news reported last week.Chavonna Thomas discovered her daughter had received the prescription, along with two boxes of condoms, when the pharmacy phoned her home.
“The school is not going to put clothes on her and her baby’s back if she gets pregnant. That school is not going to feed and take her and her baby to the doctor, that’s going to be me,” Thomas said, expressing her anger that the school would condone her daughter's sexual activity.
Thomas herself was 13 years old when her daughter was born. Knowing firsthand what life is like as a teenage mother, she said, she wants to protect her daughter.“I’m doing everything I can to keep my child from being a young mother, because none of these people who are giving her permission to do what she wants [are] going to be here when and if she gets pregnant,” she said.
The University of Rochester School of Nursing runs a health clinic inside the East High school, which has the ability to prescibe the so-called Morning After Pill. If a clinic has “Title 10” status, under state law it can give birth control, and HIV tests, to a child older than twelve without the parents’ knowledge. East High Clinic staff, however, require parents to sign a consent form giving their child permission to access the services offered by the clinic. But Ms. Thomas told WROCTV that the only permission she gave the clinic was to give her daughter an aspirin for a headache.
Teri D’Agostino, however, spokeswoman for the School of Nursing, told LifeSiteNews.com that Ms. Thomas did sign the consent form that lists “reproductive and family planning services” among those offered by the clinic. The form does not contain any details of what those services might include.
Mother of 13-Year-Old Girl Given Emergency Contraception Without Her Knowledge Outraged
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