Planned Parenthood wants wide availability of contraception to underage children.
A bill to grant carte blanche to teenagers failed in the last session of the Montana state legislature. But Planned Parenthood is now attacking the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which supposedly prohibits coverage of prescriptions of birth control. Gregg Trude of Right to Life of Montana tells OneNewsNow that Planned Parenthood is not telling the whole story.
"Girls right now are allowed to get birth control through the CHIP program in the state of Montana, if in fact a doctor writes a prescription for it," Trude explains.
He says apparently Planned Parenthood wants unlimited access, including through the CHIP program. Trude was asked about parental involvement in the process.
Montana"There is a law in Montana -- it's on the books -- that girls under the age of 16 do not have to have parental involvement or consent in anything that has to do with birth control, birth, pregnancy, or abortion. It's crazy. It's crazy," he adds.
The effort to remove restrictions in the health insurance program are relentless, according to Representative Cary Smith, who may introduce a bill to ban contraception completely from CHIP.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: August 13, 2009
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