William Helms: “Mr. President, Americans who follow international news, will recall that the French Government recently created an…”

“Mr. President, Americans who follow international news, will recall that the French Government recently created an uproar when it authorized its public schools to distribute the post-conception ``morning-after-pill'' to girl students as young as 12 years old. I wish parents in our country could be assured that such an initiative will never see the light of day in the United States, but no such assurance can be made under existing circumstances. In fact, when the French Government announced that it would be distributing the ``morning-after pill'' in French schools, the Alan Guttmacher Institute--the research arm of Planned Parenthood-- recommended almost immediately that the United States duplicate the Western European's approach in handing out contraceptions to teenage girls. So, isn't it clear that attempts to distribute the ``morning-after pill'' in U.S. public schools are indeed underway in planning boards of Planned Parenthood? Moreover, Americans will be alarmed to learn that Federal law currently gives schools the authorization to distribute these ``morning-after pills'' to schoolchildren.”