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Pro-Life Wisconsin Applauds Republicans for Rejecting Family Planning Program for Teen Boys Controve
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
October 24, 2007
Contact: Matt Sande, director of legislation, (262) 796-1111, cell (262) 352-0890
Peggy Hamill, state director, (262) 796-1111
Pro-Life Wisconsin Applauds Republicans for Rejecting Family Planning Program for Teen Boys Controversial budget proposal thankfully dropped, says Pro-Life Wisconsin
Madison - Pro-Life Wisconsin applauds Republican leadership for working to remove a proposal to expand the Medicaid Family Planning Demonstration Project to include 15, 16, 17-year-old boys from the final biennial budget bill. The project currently provides free, taxpayer-funded birth control to teen girls of similar age without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Federal and state law prohibits parents from being notified that their minor daughters are receiving free contraceptives under this demonstration project. Both the Governor’s budget and the Senate Democrats’ budget would have expanded the project to men aged 15-44.
“Providing free, taxpayer-funded birth control to 15-year-old girls behind parents’ backs is irresponsible public policy,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin. “Expanding the program to include teen boys further undermines parental authority in the sensitive area of teen sexual health. Parents are naturally concerned about the sexual health of their teen children, not only to protect them physically but to guide them morally. If anything, the state should reinforce the parent-child relationship, not undermine it. Who do we want to be the confidants of our sons and daughters – parents, or Planned Parenthood? Thankfully, Speaker Huebsch and the Republican leadership team sided with parents and their kids and not the ‘family planning’ industry.”
Compelling data indicates that broad contraceptive availability may actually work to increase underage pregnancy and abortion by encouraging sexual promiscuity, debunking Planned Parenthood’s theory that the provision of contraceptives to teens will reduce underage pregnancies. A March 2002 study published in the Journal of Health Economics investigated the impact of family planning on teenage conceptions and abortions by testing data from 16 United Kingdom regions over a 14-year period. The author of the study concluded that “the overall effect of expanding family planning services for under-16s has been to increase pregnancies and abortion.”
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the availability of confidential ‘family planning’ services to our teens is encouraging sexual promiscuity and with it a host of social pathologies,” said Matt Sande, director of legislation for Pro-Life Wisconsin. “Protecting young boys and girls from the devastating physical and emotional effects of STDs, pregnancy and abortion, as well as ensuring the rights of parents to be involved in such important issues in their children’s lives, is our moral and civic duty.”
The biennial budget bill passed the Wisconsin Legislature on a 60-39 vote in the Assembly and an 18-15 vote in the Senate.
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Contact: Matt Sande, director of legislation, (262) 796-1111, cell (262) 352-0890
Peggy Hamill, state director, (262) 796-1111
Madison - Pro-Life Wisconsin applauds Republican leadership for working to remove a proposal to expand the Medicaid Family Planning Demonstration Project to include 15, 16, 17-year-old boys from the final biennial budget bill. The project currently provides free, taxpayer-funded birth control to teen girls of similar age without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Federal and state law prohibits parents from being notified that their minor daughters are receiving free contraceptives under this demonstration project. Both the Governor’s budget and the Senate Democrats’ budget would have expanded the project to men aged 15-44.
“Providing free, taxpayer-funded birth control to 15-year-old girls behind parents’ backs is irresponsible public policy,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin. “Expanding the program to include teen boys further undermines parental authority in the sensitive area of teen sexual health. Parents are naturally concerned about the sexual health of their teen children, not only to protect them physically but to guide them morally. If anything, the state should reinforce the parent-child relationship, not undermine it. Who do we want to be the confidants of our sons and daughters – parents, or Planned Parenthood? Thankfully, Speaker Huebsch and the Republican leadership team sided with parents and their kids and not the ‘family planning’ industry.”
Compelling data indicates that broad contraceptive availability may actually work to increase underage pregnancy and abortion by encouraging sexual promiscuity, debunking Planned Parenthood’s theory that the provision of contraceptives to teens will reduce underage pregnancies. A March 2002 study published in the Journal of Health Economics investigated the impact of family planning on teenage conceptions and abortions by testing data from 16 United Kingdom regions over a 14-year period. The author of the study concluded that “the overall effect of expanding family planning services for under-16s has been to increase pregnancies and abortion.”
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the availability of confidential ‘family planning’ services to our teens is encouraging sexual promiscuity and with it a host of social pathologies,” said Matt Sande, director of legislation for Pro-Life Wisconsin. “Protecting young boys and girls from the devastating physical and emotional effects of STDs, pregnancy and abortion, as well as ensuring the rights of parents to be involved in such important issues in their children’s lives, is our moral and civic duty.”
The biennial budget bill passed the Wisconsin Legislature on a 60-39 vote in the Assembly and an 18-15 vote in the Senate.