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Planned Parenthood delivers injectables and other contraceptives to rural and indigenous youth in Ecuador.

An article in Global Health magazine by Planned Parenthood vice president of international programs, Veena Siddharth, states that the world’s biggest abortion promoter is now training children as young as 11 to inject their fellows with the injectable birth-control drug Depo-Provera.

In the article, Siddharth introduces “Juan” as a participant in the training program. “What if I told you that Juan, a community health worker in rural Ecuador, is providing injectable contraceptives outside the clinic setting to indigenous community members?  What if I told you that Juan is actually 15 years old and the clients he’s reaching are also youth?

“Juan and 30 other young people, aged 11–19 years, are the first group of peer promoters to use a peer-to-peer community-based model to deliver injectables and other contraceptives to rural and indigenous youth in the Chimborazo region of central Ecuador. The program is born of a partnership between Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and CEMOPLAF, a major Ecuadorian reproductive health NGO.”

Planned Parenthood’s use of children with only minimal training to administer this program, which would violate FDA regulations if attempted in the US, raises the questions not only of the safety of giving youngsters syringes containing a dangerous drug in order to inject other children, but of the effect of the drug on the young girls to whom it is given.

The Depo-Provera user warning on the website of the drug company Pfizer which manufactures the hormonal contraceptive states: “Use of Depo-Provera CI is associated with significant loss of BMD (bone mineral density). This loss of BMD is of particular concern during adolescence and early adulthood, a critical period of bone accretion. Bone loss is greater with increasing duration of use and may not be completely reversible.”

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