What's the Matter with Tim Ryan's Backyard
by Parker, Thu Aug 25, 2005 at 07:36:38 AM EDT
There are 490 female students at Timken High School, and 65 are pregnant
The newspaper also reported that students will face mounting tensions created by unplanned child-rearing responsibilities, causing students to quit school and plan for a GED. This will make it difficult for the Canton City School District to shake its academic watch designation by the state.
According to the Canton Health Department, statistics through July show that 104 of the 586 babies born to Canton residents in Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center had mothers between 11 and 19.
Some of the key factors contributing to this failing grade are:
- 91% of Ohio counties have no abortion providers
- Between 1992 and 1996, the number of abortion providers fell from 45 to only 37--an 18% decline
- A counseling ban
- An "Informed Consent" 24 hour waiting period
- Health insurance for state employees do not cover abortion except in medical emergencies or in the cases of rape and/or incest
- Minors must receive parental consent before obtaining an abortion
- Only physicians are permitted to perform abortions
- Women eligible for medical assistance may not obtain public funds except in medical emergency or in the cases of rape and/or incest
Anti-choice lawmakers and judges are attacking the fundamental right to choose from every angle. State governments are intruding further than they have in years into women's private lives and decisions. We now have a patchwork of restrictions reminiscent of pre-Roe days. The surge of anti-choice activity at the state level highlights very real concerns about what could happen if the Supreme Court further guts the protections of Roe v. Wade thanks to new justices nominated by President Bush.
This report clearly documents the importance of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio's mobilization to protect the right to choose, and reinforces the fact that Ohio's pro-choice majority must act immediately and powerfully to safeguard our liberty or lose it.
Tim Ryan is the man that the netroots want woment to "TRUST" to protect their reproductive rights.... I don't think so
Ohio is a harbinger of what's to come if people like Tim Ryan is elected to the Senate. There is no compassion here... ALMOST ONE FIFTH OF THE BIRTH IN CANTON OHIO ARE FROM 11 TO 19 YEAR OLD GIRLS
Not only do these girls face the onslaught of fundalmentalist wingnuts but now Democrats are aiding and abetting these fraudsters. Kerry and Hilliary joind forces with the number one wingnut Senator Sanatorum to "protect" phramacist from being booted out of a job for not wanting to prescribe birth control to jerks who use their political seats like pulpits to moralize on girls lives who they will never meet or care to...
School officials are not sure what has contributed to so many pregnancies
Perhaps it was this one woman wingnut who declared a "Morality War" on sex eduaction in Ohio.
Too outrageous to believe, I said.
I was wrong. It's in the pipeline for Ohio public schools. I believed it only after reading copies of grant documents and hand-outs from training sessions, and talking with a Hamilton County teacher who attended and described the Woodies and other things we can't print in a newspaper.
The Ohio Legislature squelched a radical sex education agenda for schools in the 1970s. But the sex educators are back with a vengance, underground this time, using behind-the-scenes regulatory power of the Ohio Department of Education and Department of Health, with public money from the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC). For several years, they've been training selective teachers and others to implement a model that has not yet been approved or seen public light until this fall.
Last week, Gov. George Voinovich asked Ohio School Board President Jennifer Sheets for a "thorough review into the Department of Education's activity on the proposed model," and halt action until the review is done. He also asked the board to "justify constructing a model (sex ed) program when no such program is required (although permitted) by Ohio law."
TIM RYAN CLEAN UP THE MESS IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD BEFORE YOU DARE LEGISLATE ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL!!!!
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