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<p>Last week in <a title="Pushing Plan B on Young Girls: Why Not?" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/publiccatholic/2012/09/the-war-on-girls-new-york-schools-dispensing-morning-after-pills-to-teens-as-young-as-14/" target="_blank">The War on Girls: NYC Schools Pushing Plan B on Young Girls</a>, I wrote about NYC’s outrageous policy of pushing the morning after pill on teen-aged girls through the schools.</p>
<p>This week’s story is from a September 26 CNS article detailing an even more outrageous update to the guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to make dangerous IUDs and hormonal implants the “first-line contraceptive options” for teen-aged girls, which should be “discussed at each doctor’s visit.” The updated guidelines recommend that doctors suggest these “longer term alternatives” that “can be left inserted inside a woman’s body and left in place for several years.” <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=1991" title="Permanent Link: The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(497 words, estimated 1:59  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=1991" title="Permanent Link: The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (497 words, estimated 1:59  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":1991,"date":"2013-06-16T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2013-08-15T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:02:44","slug":"the-war-on-girls-ob-gyns-ignore-health-risks-to-push-iuds-hormonal-implants-on-teen-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week in\u00a0<a title=\"Pushing Plan B on Young Girls: Why Not?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/09\/the-war-on-girls-new-york-schools-dispensing-morning-after-pills-to-teens-as-young-as-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">The War on Girls: NYC Schools Pushing Plan B on Young Girls<\/a>,\u00a0I wrote about NYC\u2019s outrageous policy of pushing the morning after pill on teen-aged girls through the schools.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s story is from a September 26 CNS article detailing an even more outrageous update to the guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to make dangerous IUDs and hormonal implants the \u201cfirst-line contraceptive options\u201d for teen-aged girls, which should be \u201cdiscussed at each doctor\u2019s visit.\u201d The updated guidelines recommend that doctors suggest these \u201clonger term alternatives\u201d that \u201ccan be left inserted inside a woman\u2019s body and left in place for several years.\u201d <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1991\" title=\"Permanent Link: The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(497 words, estimated 1:59  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1991\" title=\"Permanent Link: The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (497 words, estimated 1:59  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1991\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The War on Girls: Ob-Gyns Ignore Health Risks to Push IUDs, Hormonal Implants on Teen Girls - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Last week in\u00a0The War on Girls: NYC Schools Pushing Plan B on Young Girls,\u00a0I wrote about NYC\u2019s outrageous policy of pushing the morning after pill on teen-aged girls through the schools. 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