Andrea Peyser
They’ve gone too far.
City schools routinely provide mandatory lessons in deviant sex to 11-year-olds. But kids can forget about wrapping their little fingers on a fattening, contraband brownie.
Now schools are tinkering with young girls’ bodies at an alarming rate.
With the stealth of a school of sharks, your local education palaces have been promiscuously handing out powerful contraceptives to girls in the early throes of puberty.
We reported in September that members of the Bloomberg administration lie awake at night, worried that girls, especially minority girls, are getting knocked up. (The rate of teen pregnancy in the city has dropped more than 25 percent in a decade.)
So officials took it upon themselves to nip female breeding in the bud, handing out doses of so-called Plan B — the morning-after pill — to young ladies too young to understand what they’re doing to their bodies.
Getting Plan B requires no parental consent.
One mom told me this social tinkering amounted to “child abuse.” Yet as it turns out, The Post’s Susan Edelman reported, the anti-pregnancy scheme is bigger, riskier, more intrusive and secretive than previously known.
Officials don’t want you to know this about Plan B, which can block a pregnancy up to 72 hours after sex:
Some 12,721 (!) doses of the drug were dispensed during the 2011-12 school year by Health Department doctors and school nurses. That number grew like a baby bump from the previous year, when 10,720 girls swallowed Plan B. It gets worse.
Between January 2009 and last school year, an unimaginable 22,400 students waltzed into 40 health centers, mostly in poor neighborhoods, to stock up on birth-control pills, intrauterine devices and tablets that knock out pregnancies before it’s too late.
These incredible numbers are many times higher than educrats admitted. Last fall, officials said a mere 567 girls received Plan B, which they claimed was available in 13 schools.
Hogwash.
Educrats now refuse to discuss the drug.
“This is an outrageous infringement on the rights of parents to care for their children,’’ said Lisa Schiffren, senior fellow at the Independent Women’s forum, and mom of three girls.
“At worst, it allows for sexual abuse of young girls, with no consequence to the males involved. We live in a culture that sexualizes girls ridiculously early, which is a boon to boys, but wreaks havoc with their ability to plan their lives and exert control.”
As a mother, I resent the intrusion.
My worry is that by removing potential consequences from rampant premarital sex, schools will serve to increase it, not to mention the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
