Pills in School?

In New York City, 7,000 girls 17 or younger get pregnant annually with 90 percent of pregnancies unplanned. In some New York City public high schools, a program called CATCH (Connecting Adolescent To Comprehensive Health) is trying to curb this high teen pregnancy rate with their programs to give condoms and emergency contraceptives like Plan B to their students.NYC Council Speaker, Christie Quinn, told WCBS that the purpose of the CATCH program is to decrease the number of teen pregnancies.

What is plan B? Plan B is an emergency contraceptive that you take the morning after. Apparently, it's being replaces with Plan B One-Step so most information and websites referred to that. Plan B One-Step is a backup plan that helps prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex or birth control failure and is not to be used like regular birth control. It can be bought without prescription from women and men over 17.
Teens 17 and older can purchase EC over the counter without a prescription, but in New York, a person must be 18 or older to buy the pill over the counter. Those younger than 18 must have a prescription. Through the CATCH program, however, emergency contraceptives will be available to teens 14 and older without parental consent. Some parents are outraged that their children can't even have asprin without parent approval and yet they are giving out pills without their knowledge.
The program was supposed to send letters to parents, allowing them to decide if they would want their child to not be a part of the program, but these 13 schools that are doing this seem to have a "very poor outreach to parents".

If you want to know more about Plan B One-Step go to:
planbonestep.com