{"id":8721,"date":"2002-09-28T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/09\/28\/teach-the-abcs-abortion-and-birth-control\/"},"modified":"2002-09-28T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2002-09-28T16:24:35","slug":"teach-the-abcs-abortion-and-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/09\/teach-the-abcs-abortion-and-birth-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach the ABCs, Abortion and Birth Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>Girls as young as 11 will be able to obtain the<br \/>\nmorning-after pill at a London school without their parents&#8217; consent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>If the scheme at Chestnut Grove School in Balham is<br \/>\nsuccessful, it could be extended to every secondary school in Wandsworth, a<br \/>\nborough which has the fifth highest teenage pregnancy rate in inner<br \/>\nLondon.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Margaret Peacock, the headmistress, said her school was<br \/>\n<b><i>trying to behave responsibly.<\/i><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>She said under-16s could already obtain the pill without<br \/>\ntheir parents&#8217; consent from hospital accident and emergency units and<br \/>\npharmacies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;The school governors thought it would be better for<br \/>\nchildren to receive counselling from the school nurse at the same time. If the<br \/>\nchild is under age, loud bells will ring and the case will be treated as a child<br \/>\nprotection issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Sheila Crouch, Chestnut Grove&#8217;s nurse, said: &#8220;If a<br \/>\npupil comes to me for advice about emergency contraception I can only inform<br \/>\nthem of relevant clinics. This delays the process. The sooner the young person<br \/>\ntakes the first dose of the Levonelle-2 pill <b><i>the more likely it is to<br \/>\nprevent a pregnancy.<\/i><\/b>&#8221; <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2002\/09\/28\/npill28.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2002\/09\/28\/ixhome.html\">Full<br \/>\narticle<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p>I think this school nurse might need an update on her<br \/>\neducation, pregnancies don&#8217;t occur a day after having sex. This is like<br \/>\narresting and executing someone after they have committed a murder and then<br \/>\nsaying you have prevented a homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls as young as 11 will be able to obtain the morning-after pill at a London school without their parents&#8217; consent. If the scheme at Chestnut Grove School in Balham&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}