{"id":1600,"date":"2007-04-18T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/board-allows-contraceptive-dispensing-in-high-schools\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T17:45:00","slug":"board-allows-contraceptive-dispensing-in-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/board-allows-contraceptive-dispensing-in-high-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Board allows contraceptive dispensing in high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RiZZj1y3ElI\/AAAAAAAACAw\/ni2zB6Lrk1w\/s1600-h\/LCPS+logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RiZZj1y3ElI\/AAAAAAAACAw\/ni2zB6Lrk1w\/s200\/LCPS+logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054826104040657490\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcps.k12.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Public Schools<\/a> Board of Education unanimously approved Tuesday night the dispensing of contraceptives in high schools.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The vote allows school-based health clinics at <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and O\u00f1ate high schools to dispense condoms and oral contraceptives in conjunction with counseling about abstinence and sexually transmitted diseases, the <a href=\"http:\/\/lcsun-news.com\/news\/ci_5691116\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The controversial plan was approved following a long debate and after board members tacked on an amendment that allows parents to exclude their children from the program by signing a form that says their children can\u2019t be served by the clinics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nurse practitioners who are certified to prescribe medication will be dispending the contraceptives, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved Tuesday night the dispensing of contraceptives in high schools. The vote allows school-based health clinics at Las Cruces and O\u00f1ate high schools to dispense condoms and oral contraceptives in conjunction with counseling about abstinence and sexually transmitted diseases, the Las Cruces Sun-News is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}