{"id":2013978,"date":"2023-08-28T07:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-birth-control-doesnt-belong-on-your-daughters-back-to-school-list\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T11:09:11","slug":"no-birth-control-doesnt-belong-on-your-daughters-back-to-school-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-birth-control-doesnt-belong-on-your-daughters-back-to-school-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth control isn&#8217;t for your daughter&#8217;s back-to-school list."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-birth-control-doesnt-belong-on-your-daughters-back-to-school-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013978&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Not \u200dYour \u2064Average Back-to-School Supply \u2063List<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I didn\u2019t have dystopian \u2062back-to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-crayola-post-praising-disabled-trans-model-has-parents-seeing-red\/\" title=\"Woke Crayola Post Praising Disabled Trans \u2018Model\u2019 Has Parents Seeing Red\">-school shopping lists<\/a> on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are. USA Today recently published &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2023\/08\/21\/back-to-school-2023-health-supplies\/70505878007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Not your average back-to-school supply list<\/a>,&#8221; which included contraception,\u200b fentanyl test\u200c strips\u200b and naloxone (Narcan), Covid tests and vaccines, and making sure you\u2019ve\u2063 got a\u200b mental health\u200c expert\u2019s contact info on hand. Undoubtedly, that last one is for the inevitable breakdowns that will occur from the depression caused \u2062by your daughter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-call-for-moving-olympics-from-china-citing-genocide\/\" title=\"Senate Republicans Call For Moving Olympics From China, Citing Genocide\">birth control<\/a>, the disturbing\u2064 sight of teens dropping\u2063 dead on campus from fentanyl overdoses, and the \u200dlooming threat of mask \u200bmandate reinstatements \u2014 not to mention, for making sure kids with \u2064conflicted feelings about their sexuality are affirmed in their confusion, and that it\u2019s \u200call hidden \u200bfrom parents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Welcome to the\u200b 2023-2024 school \u2062year,\u200b kiddos!<\/h3>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-496115430\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c17dcd7744d7ccf17c3e4e6b5a862991 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c17dcd7744d7ccf17c3e4e6b5a862991\"><\/div>\n<p>Not to be outdone, NPR is in on the fun, too. In a glowing &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221;\u2064 segment on \u201cproactive\u201d young women ticking birth control off\u200d their back-to-school lists before\u200d shipping out to colleges in those backward \u2064states that\u200b ban fetal dismemberment, we\u2019re treated to a serene description of the insertion of a\u200c Nexplanon implant underneath the skin of an\u2063 adolescent girl\u2019s arm in an Oakland, \u200cCalifornia high\u200b school clinic, all set to pan flute music,\u2063 and complete with muted sounds of the \u200bprocedure\u2063 as it happens in the background.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the\u200c segment, with the young woman having been effectively, \u2063temporarily sterilized, we hear the \u200bhost of \u200bthe segment characterize the \u200bteen\u2019s \u201crelief\u201d as one\u2063 of being able\u2062 to \u201cfocus\u2062 on her education and revel in \u2062the freedom of college\u201d \u2014 of \u200ccourse, it\u2019s all been \u200cdone \u200dto ensure \u200cthat the \u2064young woman \u200bcan still remain sexually available to the\u200c guy with whom she\u2019s been sleeping \u201coff and on, off and on,\u201d now that he\u2019s headed off to\u2063 the same school as she\u2062 is in\u2062 \u2014 *gasp* \u2014\u2062 that conservative, anti-choice hellhole known as Texas. Thank God for California\u2019s lax\u200c adolescent birth\u200d control policies\u2064 that allow school nurses to write scrips for birth control (even an entire year\u2019s worth, for free!) for kids without their \u200dparents\u2019 \u2062notification or permission, am I \u2064right?<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, that birth control has now been added to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-corporate-media-are-just-smear-merchants-trafficking-in-horse-manure\/\" title=\"Ron DeSantis: \u2018Corporate Media\u2019 Are Just \u2018Smear Merchants\u2019 Trafficking In \u2018Horse Manure\u2019\">corporate media\u2019<\/a>s \u201cback-to-school\u200d lists\u201d (to say nothing of Narcan\u2062 injections and the phone numbers of\u200d gender\u2064 ideology-pushing school \u200dcounselors) makes \u2064me \u200bincredibly sad for our girls.\u200c It calls to mind \u200cmy Natural Womanhood colleague\u2019s \u2064recent comment that \u200cwe now collectively \u201ctalk about our daughters as if they\u2019re the \u200cfamily pet\u201d \u2014 you know, the cats and dogs we spay for their \u200down health and protection, given\u200b that \u200dthey just can\u2019t help\u200c themselves from engaging \u2062in their animalistic impulses? \u201cI don\u2019t\u200b think of my daughters\u2064 that way, and I \u2063don\u2019t \u2064want them to think of\u200c themselves that\u2064 way, either,\u201d Jackie \u2063said. As the mother of multiple \u200cdaughters \u2064myself, I agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie\u2019s incisive comment came as we\u200d developed content for our Mothers of\u2062 (Pre)Teens online course, geared toward\u200c empowering mothers to have essential \u2063conversations with their daughters about\u2063 puberty, their \u200bcycles \u2063and fertility,\u200b and the dignity inherent in it all. Far from being a \u2063one-note \u200b\u201csex\u2063 ed\u201d program, our course provides what\u2062 preteen\u200b and teen\u200b girls crave\u2062 far more than\u2062 being taught how to put a condom on a banana, or how to \u2063choose which device or pill loaded with a cocktail of hormones they \u2062should shove \u200binto their bodies: to understand the changes in their developing\u2063 bodies, to know why it\u2019s\u2064 all happening (especially their periods,\u200b and the emotional shifts \u200cthat occur over\u2063 the course of their cycles), and how to get help\u200c when their periods feel\u2062 impossible to \u2062cope with.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6290ac65be779656baaf391bc636526a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6290ac65be779656baaf391bc636526a\"><\/div>\n<p>Most importantly, in an age where every self-styled \u201ceducator\u201d or \u201ccounselor\u201d is \u200chell-bent on hiding your child\u2019s most intimate secrets from\u200d you, the parent, we\u200b developed\u2063 our course with the twofold goal of fostering a relationship\u2064 of trust between mothers and daughters\u2064 and\u2062 empowering mothers \u200cto be the primary resource for their\u2063 daughters on \u2064these deeply personal topics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite NPR and USA Today\u2019s urgings, our girls don\u2019t need the\u2064 pseudo-empowerment \u200cof birth control\u2019s \u200d\u201cprotection\u201d \u2064from the inner workings of \u2063their own bodies, they\u200b need an understanding of their dignity as budding young \u2063women, created with the\u2063 natural ability to nurture and\u2063 bring forth new life someday \u2014 and the\u200d incredible gift that is. What\u2062 they really\u200d desire is not the \u2063ability to participate in the heartbreak of hookup culture, but a \u2063truly empowered body literacy, which reinforces for them the\u2063 truth that they are fearfully and wonderfully made, just as they are, apart from whatever feelings they\u2063 can excite in others.<\/p>\n<p>So this school\u200b year, do better than treating your daughter as\u2063 the family pet, and keep birth control <em>off<\/em> \u2063her\u200c \u201cback-to-school\u201d list. \u2064Show her the dignity she \u2063deserves,\u2062 and give her the guidance she needs to navigate the \u2063realities of life as a \u2064young woman in this insane world where powerful\u200c drugs, vaccines, and antidotes dominate media \u2064pieces about \u201cpreparing\u201d and \u201cprotecting\u201d our children (likely written\u200c and produced by people without any \u2064children of \u200ctheir own). Break the cycle of shame\u2062 and fear surrounding womanhood that has some girls literally shedding their flesh \u200bto ape some facsimile of masculinity, and others sexualizing,\u200c sterilizing, and objectifying themselves \u2062to earn \u200bthe\u2062 attention they so desperately crave, which they\u2019ve confused \u2064for the dignity of \u200cdeep and lasting love.<\/p>\n<p>As women \u200bourselves, \u200dwe mothers are uniquely situated to provide this information to our daughters (but I should note that loving\u2064 dads and grandparents have\u2062 reached out to us about using our\u200c course,\u2063 too). It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-the-bad-faith-debate-over-cancel-culture\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: The Bad Faith Debate Over \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019\">high time<\/a> we stop\u2063 passing the buck on our duties as mothers to prepare, empower, and inform the \u2064next generation \u200cof women, \u2064and you\u2063 owe it to yourself\u2062 and to your daughter to work through whatever hangups and lies you\u2019ve\u200d been sold about the dignity of your own\u2064 womanhood first\u200d (and\u200d for that, I recommend the work of the incredible\u2062 female scholars at Fairer Disputations and Theology \u200cof Home).<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-473d1c55b2721bf5187549a9c47ef3f3 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-473d1c55b2721bf5187549a9c47ef3f3\"><\/div>\n<p>One thing\u2019s for \u2063sure: If you\u2019re the\u2064 mother or other parental figure of a young girl,\u2062 this is up to you \u2014 but it can be done. Oh, and know that NPR, USA Today, or your child\u2019s pediatrician \u2062or school counselor sure \u200bwon\u2019t\u200c do it for you.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>unexpected on a typical back-to-school list. However, in 2023, USA Today highlighted an atypical list featuring contraception, fentanyl test strips, Covid tests and vaccines, and naloxone. It also emphasized the importance of having a mental health expert&#8217;s contact information readily available. These additions reflect the dystopian reality we find ourselves in for back-to-school preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":700,"featured_media":2013979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}