A new
report from the eminent Heritage Foundation shows that the proposed expansion of
SCHIP would threaten
parental control of their children’s’ health and sexuality. As if
refusing to protect unborn children, expanding government spending, and
incrementally socializing health care weren’t bad enough, the SCHIP expansion
would also further radical concepts of sex education. Excerpt:
In their effort to override the President's veto of
legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP),
Members of Congress have added to the "compromise" legislation (H.R.
3963) two little noticed provisions that would undermine parents' right to
consent to--or even know about--medical care given to their children through
school-based health clinics. Such "medical care" could involve as
intimate and delicate a matter as giving contraceptives to children. If the
proposed legislation goes into effect, federal laws and regulations would make
contraception available to millions of children, for free, while prohibiting
doctors and schools from informing the children's parents.
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