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It was just a matter of time.
City schools — where kids are lectured about the joys of anal and oral sex before age 12 — have stepped up their game. Your taxpayer-funded high schools, where students may score a free condom, but forget about Tylenol, are now effectively encouraging teens to engage in life-threatening unprotected sex.
It’s about control. Mind control.
This is yet another move designed to replace parental authority with pinheaded bureaucracy. So far, 13 schools have, quietly, taken it upon themselves to allow Department of Health doctors and school nurses to dispense to girls as young as 14 the “morning-after pill,” otherwise known as “Plan B.” The pill prevents pregnancy if popped within days of unprotected intercourse.
How odd that schools ban the sale of obesity-causing brownies, but the cornucopia of powerful drugs offered to underage girls more freely than jelly beans includes such long-acting birth-control concoctions as Depo-Provera.
Which means young girls are free to do the wild thing with irresponsible boys, without fear of adverse consequences.
Worse, they can engage in risky sex without fear their parents will ever know.
But one little fact has gone unremarked-upon, ever since The Post reported on CATCH — Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Health — a hush-hush experiment with children’s physical and emotional health that began last year:
The program is racist.
You won’t find Plan B offered in high-performing Stuyvesant HS. Nor at Bayside HS in Queens, my alma mater.
The morning-after pill is thrust exclusively at public schools in minority-heavy neighborhoods where, educrats assume, parents are negligent and girls are easy.
What message does this send to youngsters resisting premarital sex?
“There definitely is a racial component here,” said one Plan B opponent. “Of all the schools on Staten Island, which one did they pick? Port Richmond. Who lives there?”
Parents are almost universally appalled at the blatant display of disrespect. To schoolgirls.
“I don’t care how they try to sugarcoat it. This is child abuse!” said mom of two teen girls Pat Mobley. She worried about “catastrophic” effects the drugs might have on the health of developing children.
“Obviously, this is an aggressive mandate aimed at putting the state in charge of the rearing of children,’’ she said. “They are supporting casual sex among children. The boys get a free ride, as usual. ‘’
On abortion, I am pro-choice. But this dastardly scheme goes too far. Removing the risk of pregnancy takes away a barrier to teen sexuality, as well as sexually transmitted disease. Cutting out parents from their daughters’ lives is not just foolish. It’s evil.
Yes, there is an “opt-out” provision. Parents may explicitly tell schools, “Not my child.” But a number of moms and dads have reported that they never saw the letter that, supposedly, gives parents the option of preventing their girls from becoming lab rats in a great, doomed social experiment.
Depressingly, Mayor Bloomberg spoke about the program like a new, shiny toy.
“The good news is we’ve brought teenage pregnancy down by, I think, something like 25 percent over the last 10 years” — without giving out Plan B. “The bad news is there’s still an awful lot of girls who get pregnant at a very early age.”
Seven thousand a year under 17, says the Health Department.
Is this any way to prevent teen pregnancy? Joe Zwilling, spokesman for the New York Archdiocese, sees a plot against families, and he’s right. “Society for millennia understood the unique role parents have,” he said. “And here comes the city saying, ‘We know better.’ ”
Not without a fight.
Bronx state Assemblyman Marcos Crespo has asked the mayor to end the insanity. “It is unconscionable for New York City’s government to implement any program that gives medication to students without the prior authorization of parents,” he warned Hizzoner.
I predict disease, lawsuits, and parental alienation in our future. The city must keep its hands off our kids.
World ‘leaders,’ take your act elsewhere next year
Iran-iac Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood at the UN podium yesterday, on the solemn Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, and spewed anti-America, anti-Israel, anti-human filth. What else is new?
In his speech before international thugs and world leaders, President Obama slapped the Muslim world for deadly riots aimed at America. But he neglected to say that “terrorists’’ murdered our ambassador to Libya and put targets on American heads. An accident?
Each year, New York stops for the United Nations General Assembly, a gathering of folks who’d enjoy seeing this country and Israel wiped from the map. There’s a solution to this self-flagellation:
Turn the UN building into condos.
Shel pal’s Silver meddle
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has a friend. One friend.
A woman who goes by the name “Sophia Walker” has burned up her blog and sent letters to the editor, defending Silver for arranging $103,080 in taxpayer hush money to silence two alleged victims of Assemblyman Vito “Gropez” Lopez. Lopez is accused of laying his paws on at least four staffers.
Trouble is, as The Post reported, “Sophia” is a dude.
Not just any dude, but an Assembly staffer who, by day, goes by the name Bill Eggler, 48.
“This entire affair is nothing more than election-year scandal-mongering,” Bill/Sophia wrote to the Albany Times Union’s Capitol Confidential blog. “Kudos to The Post for attempting to keep this faux scandal alive by any means necessary. Keep up the good work rallying your teabagger moron readers against Democrats who have done nothing wrong,” he/she commented on this newspaper’s Web site.
Eggler was chewed out by Silver’s office, his access to the Internet cut.
Quick! Shelly needs a new friend. He also needs to resign.
Even now, no justice for Etan
The case of little, lost Etan Patz has haunted the city for 33 years. It appears it will remain a mystery a while longer.
In May, Pedro Hernandez, a bipolar schizophrenic from New Jersey, confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan in a SoHo bodega. But after four months spent scouring the store and Hernandez’s home, authorities told The Post they don’t have enough evidence for a conviction.
Did Hernandez do it? We may never know. A tragedy unsolved. Maybe forever.
‘Left’ out in hollywood
When did Republicans invade Hollywood?
Emmy host Jimmy Kimmel (right) assumed he was addressing like-minded lefties last weekend. “Is anyone here voting for Mitt Romney?” he asked. Astonishingly, loud applause rang out in LA’s Nokia Theater.
Sticking awkwardly to his script, Kimmel underplayed the cheering: “Oh, good, only 40 Republicans, and the rest are godless liberal homosexuals.”
About time we saw diversity in La La Land.