Yeah, it's a biased web site. They include health/safety violations -- like the kind every
Hospital is occasionally cited for after JCAH or State Health Board inspections. That's vastly different from rape/sexual abuse reporting laws.
The one in CT titled "Failure to Report Sexual Abuse" was a missing 15 year old, who'd been held captive by an adult man and two adult women, locked in a small room for a year, and impregnated. Planned Parenthood released the fetal tissue for DNA comparison, proving the kidnapper was her rapist, and court evidence to convict the creep! While it would have been great if the intake interview had identified her as a victim of kidnap/rape/imprisonment....the girl might have been concerned about being able to
terminate her rapist's pregnancy if she'd confided the situation, gotten dragged into the legal system, and delayed the abortion.
Would you have preferred the
State make the decision, by requiring her parents be notified and give consent before
her abortion? Really?
Can't wait to see the web site you'd use as "proof" that birth control leads to death, or that it means "body altering drugs".
Seriously, there are plenty of non-hormonal alternatives to The Pill, including barrier methods like IUDs or diaphragms. But those have to be inserted/fitted/subscribed by a physician...not as simple as OTC one-size-fits-most male condoms..
Since you're so concerned with parental notification -- Do you think teenaged males should need a permission slip from their parents to buy Trojans at the local gas station?
Talk about tangents. I realize you're a parent of a toddler....but your "broader scale" sounds like worries of a new father that tends toward control-freak. Hate to burst your paternalistic bubble, but there's no way to
prevent a teenager from being sexual, experimenting with or engaging in sex (that doesn't always mean intercourse, ya know.) Well, unless you raise them as hermits, secluded and isolated from the larger world, devoid of any trust. And if you think it's okay to use
physical force to restrain your 14 year old from leaving the house....that's not just abusive, but bad parenting.