she is a christian girl, doesn t believe in this. her religion doesn t believe in this. telling the young girl well, if you have sex, can you use this morning after pill which includes things like dangers like thrombosis, pulmonary embolism. you can get a heart attack. you can have severe bleeding. retinal thrombosis. all sorts of hazards associated with taking that which is a big big big dose of hormones for young girls. how you can defend, this doctor? okay. well, first of all, i know this is a hot button topic. doctors are not telling girls if you have sex you can use this prescription. what the academy is recommending is that the research has shown that adolescents are less likely to use the emergency contraceptive unless they already have a prescription. now i agree with you that this is a personal issue that each parent should be the primary sex educator of their children and if you don t like this idea, it s totally behooves you to talk to your
after school. officials report that there has been little resistance in the big city. necessity say parents at the schools involved have the opportunity to opt out but only 1 percent or 2 percent of the parents opened out. the rest of the students can now get the pill, the morning after pill, for three and they do not have to tell their parents. by corner draft, it is an emergency contraceptive supposed to reduce the risk of pregnancy if taken within a few daze after sex with no effect on women already pregnant there is no current estimate of the number of schools with similar programs but a 2001 survey of some 22 school-based health centers found 30 percent provided access to emergency contraception. there are clearly a lot them out there. we have judicial analyst, judge napolitano. there are privacy concerns. there are rights of parents
shepard: the largest school district in our nation now reports it s expanding access to the so-called morning after birth control. and students can now get it from the school without permission from parents. the place is new york city. the pilot began, the pilot program began at five public high schools early last year. now students at 13 schools can get the plan b emergency contraceptive regardless of age. plan b is supposed to reduce the risk of pregnancy if taken within a few days after sex. it s not the same as the so-called abortion pill. the city reports it informed parents of this by a letter and that only about 1% or 2% of parents have chosen to opt p. opponents have said the government is going too far in this case. the department of held have responded with this statement. in new york city over 7,000 young men became pregnant by age 17. 0% of which are unplanned. we are committed to trying to new approaches like this pilot
welcome, everybody. right to breaking news. two western journalists including an american journalist has been killed in syria. the american is marie colvin who reported from syria for us just hours ago as he was talking to anderson cooper on this network. remi ochlik is a french photographer who was also killed. it happened in the city of homs. we have new videotape to show you. this is showing you the rubble from that videotape where the shelling rather, where the journalists were killed. and last night when she was talking to anderson on ac 360, mary colvin talked about the murder, as she put it, that she sees happening in that scity every single day. this is the worse, anderson, for many reasons. i think the last time we talked when i was what mathere s nowhe to run. the syrian army is holding the perimeter. there s far more ordnance being poured into this city and no way of predicting where it s going to land. mary colvin, you see her there with an eye patch over he
so far there is no information on a possible motive. chris johns lives at the intersection. he shot video of the gunman and even engaged him in conversation to try to get his attention and he join us from los angeles. thank pup what were you thinking at the time in first of all, what drew your attention in the noise? yeah. basically, i heard pop, pop, pop. you know, i heard the gunshots. so that kind of drew my attention. i looked at the video and you said, hey, over here. look over here. why were you why were you trying to get him to come? you were asking him to shoot at you. yeah. i thought that i made a calculate calculated, kind of comparison. i thought, if people down there at point blank range to the shooter were going to get shot, you know, they were kind of helpless to avoid being killed. you know, me, i m four stories up, if i could take any of his attention and divert it towards me, any gunshots that he would shoot at me, i would have an opportunity to get