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...proposal would give students direct access to birth control pills as well as Depo-Provera, a three-month birth-control injection, and Norplant, a contraceptive surgical implant which lasts about five years...
...main concern among school committee members was whether students should be able to choose long-term birth control devices. School Committee member Alfred Fantini cited a study linking Norplant to depression, headaches, and weight gain...
...proposal would give students direct access to daily birth control pills; Depo Provera, a three-month injection; and Norplant, an implant which lasts for about five years...
...measures, they argue, will break the cycle of dependency that has destroyed so many families. To liberals, such a policy is cruel and racist, and it punishes children for their parents' behavior. When the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an editorial suggesting that women on welfare be implanted with the contraceptive Norplant -- a sort of chemical family cap -- the newspaper was fiercely attacked, even by some of its own staffers, for advocating genocide. "Who will put the limit on the number of kids a family should have?" asks Buffy Boesen, a Denver community organizer. "In China the government does it. Is that...
...Planned Parenthood clinicians are women certified to prescribe or administer all FDA-approved contraceptives on the premises, Verhoven says. UHS, in contrast, does not insert the IUD or Norplant...