Britain: Girls, 13, Given Contraceptive Implants at School
February 8th, 2012Via: Telegraph:
Girls as young as 13 have been fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parents knowing.
The procedure was carried out in Southampton, Hants, as part of a government initiative to drive down teenage pregnancies.
As many as nine secondary schools in the city are thought to have been involved.
But it has caused a backlash from parents who weren’t aware that their daughters had been fitted with the 4cm device, which sits under the skin.
It is currently unknown exactly how many youngsters have taken part in the scheme.
I’m afraid that if I discovered a school nurse or doctor gave my kid a birth control implant without my explicit written consent, I’d be sorely tempted to break their fingers so they could have some time off work to think about what “informed consent” really means.
I suspect that in most communities they’d have a hard time finding a jury who would convict for such a reprisal.
im curious, what are the risks inherent w/ non-hormonal contraceptives like the copper iud? all i found was some sketchy copper blood type conspiracy, pretty vague. is the cervix at risk or is it a convenience thing? i wonder if people are unaware of the role hormones play in their health and well being, or if they are unaware that these products, from souless corporations, even use artificial hormones.
okok, aside from the iud and neem oil, what are the non-hormonal alternatives available? anyone know?
My wife and I used the Lady-Comp Fertility Monitor for years:
https://cryptogon.com/?p=527
Can you imagine if those girls were instead taught to take their own temperature and keep a chart and manage their own health? What a different world this would be with kids learning knowledge and skills in school.
@alvinroast
And deprive those corporations decades of profits from sales of birth control drugs? Oh no, no, no.
Just wait for the day:
You make a fuss about this and go in for a chat.
80-90% of the parents don’t mind, you walk out with a free “happy’ implant. A nice legal note to report back for more chats over many many months.
@pessimistic optimist: the copper IUD is about as safe as it gets wrt birth control methods. it’s gotten bad press because it sometimes causes increased cramping/bleed time, but hey, it prevents babies. fair trade if you ask me (personally, however, i have NO problems with mine and would never go back). any IUD poses a very slight risk of uterine perforation and/or infection, but if you go to a practitioner who has done it before you should be OK. i’ve never heard of any risk to the cervix itself.
i had an acupuncturist (chinese lady) who was appalled that americans can’t get non-hormonal birth control other than one type… she told me all about the various little “metal rings” that are standard in china and have no hormones. america is, as usual, the land of choices.
the hormonal IUD and all the pills are marketed so heavily here and packed with acne-fighting, period-lessening, mood-fixing extras that women see them as a magical solution to the ‘inconveniences’ of their biology. there is a deep, dark loathing that women as a whole aren’t even aware of but have bought into nonetheless.
fertility monitoring is obviously the wisest solution – teaching girls about the hows and whys of their bodies and keeping the wisdom going… but people are lazy and uncommitted so until we have no choice they majority will be asking for a pill.
sorry for the ramble.
Thank you for all the contraception links, Kevin. I have been appalled to learn of all my friends/relations/acquaintances who appear to be completely ignorant of the alternatives to pharmaceutical fertility control and have compiled them in a single email bomb for them (including the neem link).
Unfortunately, while all these women (and the men who love them) are rending their tunics about Santorum’s pronouncements, the U.S. is continuing to rob them blind and marching their kids off to war.
@tal
Women are able to determine desirable genetic diversity in men by smell. Guess what happens when women use those dangerous, expensive drugs?
http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/2/140.full
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-correlated odor preferences in mice and humans might be regarded as biological analogues of preferences for artificial scents in humans (Vollrath and Milinski, 1995). Mice prefer potential mates that have an MHC that differs from their own (Egid and Brown, 1989; Penn and Potts, 1998a; Potts et al., 1991, 1994; Yamazaki et al., 1976, 1978, 1983, 1994). Evidence also exists for MHC dissassortative odor (Wedekind & Füri, 1997; Wedekind et al., 1995) and mating preferences in humans (Ober et al., 1997). Wedekind et al. (1995) found in a double-blind study that women (not using the contraceptive pill) prefer the odor of t-shirts worn by MHC-dissimilar men to those with more similar MHC-genotype. The preference was reversed in women who took oral contraceptives.
Thanks, Kevin. I’ve added that one to the pile. BTW, the LadyComp study links worked but told me I should inform you they’re wrong. While I realize you may be going through a proxy (or something else I don’t grok), I am duly reporting the ‘new’ URLS:
http://www.raxmedical.com/studies1.php
http://www.raxmedical.com/studies2.php
http://www.raxmedical.com/studies3.php
http://www.raxmedical.com/studies4.php
http://www.raxmedical.com/studies8.php
http://www.raxmedical.com/studies9.php
Here’s another one for the Neem collection:
Plant immunomodulators for termination of unwanted pregnancy and for contraception and reproductive health.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlu
s&list_uids=9107574&query_hl=10&itool=pubmed_docsum