The Obama Administration's Rules for Raising Your Teenage Daughter
I'm amazed this hasn't gotten more attention yet, but here's my attempt to explain why you should be bothered by the Obama administration's contraception mandate even if you don't have a problem with contraception generally.
The conversation thus far has focused on the employees and students who would receive services under the law. The text of the HHS rule, however, extends far beyond them. It requires coverage, with no co-pay charge, of all Food and Drug Administration-approved "contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures . . . for all women with reproductive capacity."
That includes all female minors who are covered under employer-provided family insurance plans. That means Obama's contraceptive mandate extends to all American daughters covered by an insurer.
Currently, twenty-six states and the District of Columbia allow all children twelve and older access to contraceptives without any parental consent or notification. Connecticut and Maine let minors get an abortion without parental consent or a court's permission. States such as Oregon allow sterilization—yes, without parental consent or notification—as young as age fifteen...
Supporters of the administration's policy argue this is a good thing. The Guttmacher Institute, a strong promoter of abortion and contraception, said in a September briefing, "many minors will not avail themselves of important services if they are forced to involve their parents."
Whether you think your teenage daughter getting contraception is a good thing or not, as I noted the other day, this coverage doesn't just extend to the pill, but to all FDA approved forms of contraception, such as implants and IUDs. I suspect most parents would want to know about any and all of this. But the policy was designed specifically with the aim of removing them from the process.
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Jun '12
Re: The Obama Administration's Rules for Raising Your Teenage Daughter
The Village knows better than you how to raise your daughter.
May '10
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I would call it moral insanity if I weren't persuaded that it's out and out evil.
Aug '12
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In progressive America a child can be reprimanded and sent home for taking aspirin to school but can get the schools help getting an abortion.
Mar '11
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The pill may be taken by teenage girls for other reasons (I won't get graphic here and of course the principle that the least invasive therapy should be applied and tested in such situations stands) than simply birth control--but it is probably on their parents dime and parents should absolutely be informed.
But that aside, it is a usurpation of parental authority by the all-regulating state to permit minors to have abortions, access to Ru486-type drugs, or surgically implanted forms of birth control without (at a bare minimum) requiring parental notification.
Edited on November 1, 2012 at 9:56pmMar '12
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Why hasn't it gotten much attention? Just a guess from my reaction: it can't possibly be true. There has to be something somewhere in the bowels of that bill that doesn't allow this interpretation. It's kinda a it won't happen to me--my daughters--shock and denial. It's just too insane, and I'm inclined to find the O Admin and Obamacare insane. It's not a rational reaction or a very lawyer like one, but until it happens to some poor girl who gets hurt during the procedure, many just won't believe it.
Jun '12
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I'm with Katie. Evil, total evil.
Jan '11
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Why would anyone think parents shouldn't know that their minor daughter will be sterilized, let alone the other procedures? Are parents enemies?
The mind boggles.
May '10
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Yes. Parents are the enemies of the left's plan to render children creatures of the State.
Aug '10
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As the father of a fifteen year old girl, I am outraged , angry , and scared.
Which should drive me to vote on Tuesday against the operatives of such campaigns . Living in Missouri , that means I get to vote against Obama AND Claire McCaskill, one of the preeminent Emily's Listers. A babykiller of the first order . Well, she never had the chance to vote as Obama has in favor of killing the failed abortive babies, outside the womb. I guess that makes him the babykiller of the first order. Or maybe a Grand Kleagle of Abortion ?
Aug '10
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katievs
Yes. Parents are the enemies of the left's plan to render children creatures of the State. · 1 hour ago
Just saw your post Katievs, creatures or victims or targets ?
May '10
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flownover
katievs
Yes. Parents are the enemies of the left's plan to render children creatures of the State. · 1 hour ago
Just saw your post Katievs, creatures or victims or targets ? · 17 hours ago
Once we're creatures of the state, they can do anything they like with us.