New York City schools are offering young girls a full menu of birth control options -- free of parental counsel and knowledge -- thanks to an unpublicized project by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, the Washington Times website reports today (February 4, 2013).
School nurses handed out 12,721 doses of the Plan B One-Step "morning-after" pill in 2011-12, up from 10,720 in 2010-11, and 5,039 in 2009-10.
Mona Davids -- president of the New York City Parents Union -- was stunned by the report.
"I'm in shock," Davids said. "What gives the mayor the right to decide, without adequate notice, to give our children drugs that will impact their bodies and their psyches? He has purposely kept the public and parents in the dark with his agenda."
NYC officials refused to discuss the project, which also includes some 40 school-based clinics that have been dispensing prescriptions for contraception, intrauterine devices, and hormone-delivering injections.
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