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  • Title: Free Norplant to troubled teens.
    Journal: Family Plan World; 1991; ():7. PubMed ID: 12346942.
    Abstract:
    Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains received $50,000 from a private foundation to fund the insertion of Norplant contraceptive delivery systems in drug-addicted women and low-income teens in the Denver area. The organization believes that this intervention will prevent unwanted pregnancies, reduce the number of abortions, and prevent the birth of infants addicted to alcohol and other drugs. Counselors for Project Prevention searched through drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, shelters for the homeless, and teen parent programs to find women under age 19 who were interested in participating. Participants were not coerced to choose Norplant, but they received education about family planning and birth control. 36 women will receive Norplant through the initial funding from the foundation. Planned Parenthood has launched a fundraising campaign to continue the project and to service a waiting list which has already exceeded the program's financial limits. Despite outside concerns that some of the program participants may be coerced into accepting Norplant and that the program helps forge a link between welfare and birth control, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains will continue providing free Norplant systems to drug-addicted women and indigent teens.
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