[On the “Schoolchildren’s Health Protection Act” which will cut federal funding to schools that distribute morning after pills to high school girls who request it.]

"Rep. Lamborn’s bill denies Medicaid, SCHIP and Title X federal funds to school-based health clinics if a school fails to comply with the proposed provision.

This common sense Act is very short but succinctly deals with this dire issue. Schools should never be in the family planning business. Besides the general risks associated with such a high dose of birth control (low doses are still associated with a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, etc.), a student’s medical history of taking the drug through a school clinic is likely to be unknown or confidential. This puts physicians treating potential complications in a serious and dangerous bind.

Discussing his bill in a recent interview with Concerned Women for America (CWA), Rep. Lamborn stated, “There’s a role for mothers and fathers. They have responsibility for their children and just to cut them out because of political correctness, saying that anything having to do with abortion is totally protected above everything else, no other considerations matter, is just not right. They may be aware of medical history for their daughter that the nurse may not even be aware of, may not know is significant.”"