{"id":76936,"date":"2015-10-15T07:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=76936"},"modified":"2017-08-03T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:06:32","slug":"salon-trashes-bristol-palin-speaking-iuds-10-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/salon-trashes-bristol-palin-speaking-iuds-10-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon trashes Bristol Palin for speaking out against IUDs for 10-year-olds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Salon has no love<\/a> for Bristol Palin. The latest proof is a recently published piece titled “Just shut up, Bristol Palin: You are the last person who should talk about birth control.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Bristol, 24, is indeed pregnant with her second child. But why should that prevent her from exposing the true concerns with schools implanting IUDs into girls as young as 10?<\/p>\n

Over the summer, many were shocked to find out<\/a> that a school in Seattle, Washington, was implanting the birth control device into students – sometimes without parental knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n

Writing for Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams claims that many have been rooting for Bristol, and then in the next paragraph – a lengthy one – she uses strong language to ridicule her.\u00a0When Williams finally brings\u00a0up birth control, it’s to criticize Bristol for her recent blog post on Patheos, “The Government is Paying for 10 Year Olds to Get Implanted Birth Control?!?!”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bristol Palin with her youngest brother Trig<\/p><\/div>\n

Williams, who snarks,\u00a0“I know this is a radical idea if your last name is Palin, but let\u2019s go to the facts,” tries to break it down for us. But it seems she spends more time criticizing Bristol and her family than on, you know, facts<\/em>. Her points are not all that strong, and are easily responded to – and not just because she poses a question mark:<\/p>\n

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As Snopes explains,\u00a0\u201cOver half the states in the U.S. allow all minors 12 and older to consent to contraceptive services.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0That does not mean that\u00a0they\u2019re all having sex\u00a0\u2014 note how the HPV vaccine is recommended for middle schoolers. But did you know that\u00a0IUDs can also be used to control periods?<\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s true. So imagine you\u2019re 10 and you\u2019re dealing with heavy, difficult menstrual cycles. Maybe you want to explore your options. And if the IUD is so \u201ccontroversial,\u201d why does the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say\u00a0it\u2019s safe for adolescents?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Williams herself makes the point that not all these young girls are having sex, so it makes even less sense that the HPV vaccine would be recommended at such a young age.\u00a0There has been resistance from some doctors to give out the HPV vaccine,<\/a>\u00a0both in<\/a> the United States<\/a> and\u00a0Canada.\u00a0<\/a>LifeSiteNews also <\/a>highlighted<\/a> the dangers of the vaccine, particularly among the African-American community.<\/p>\n

And what about IUDs? Why would you put a potentially dangerous<\/a> and sometimes abortifacient <\/a>form of long-acting contraception into the body of a child?\u00a0There are other ways to control one’s menstrual cycle.<\/p>\n

And as to the point about the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: their own website shows they are pro-abortion<\/a>, which seems to color all of their positions regarding abortifacient contraception and abortion.<\/p>\n

Live Action News has written before<\/a> how it’s actually quite shocking that doctors would recommend this form of birth control to young women and children.<\/p>\n

Williams does address the issue of parental consent, but her argument is poor. And once again, the focus is spent more so on targeting Bristol:<\/p>\n

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Palin acts like schools are tossing IUDs into playgrounds and kids are just running around, grabbing Mirenas without telling their parents. What she isn\u2019t doing is: A) Asking if a girl might obtain birth control for a reason other than birth control, B) Considering that just because parental consent is not required that it is never asked for or given. Shockingly, many loving, responsible families understand that as teens get older, many become sexually active, and they want their kids to make smart, healthy choices and protect themselves from unplanned pregnancies. … She [Palin] also isn\u2019t acknowledging that the reality is that lots of adolescents\u00a0well over the age of 10 do have sex without their parents\u2019 knowledge, so maybe they should go ahead and get contraception without their parents\u2019 knowledge\u00a0too. And wow, you\u2019d think after two pregnancies of her own, she\u2019d finally understand and have a little empathy on\u00a0that point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s the problem with Williams and Salon. Yes, Bristol Palin comes from a well-known family, one which people may not always agree with. And yes, she is pregnant. But why should that prevent her from having an opinion on abortifacient birth control – or any birth control for children – unless it’s one pro-abortion writers and media outlets agree with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Salon has no love for Bristol Palin. The latest proof is a recently published piece titled “Just shut up, Bristol Palin: You are the last person who should talk about birth control.” Bristol, 24, is indeed pregnant with her second child. But why should that prevent her from exposing the true concerns with schools implanting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":77102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3859,3097,1532,435],"yoast_head":"\nSalon trashes Bristol Palin for speaking out against IUDs for 10-year-olds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It's actually quite shocking that doctors would recommend this form of birth control to young women and children. 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