InstagramNever one to censor her political feelings, Bristol Palin is forging a new attack over claims that a Seattle school is providing 10-year-old students with IUDs, an intrauterine device implanted to prevent conception.
"Do you remember what it was like to be a 10 year old?" the 24-year-old pregnant mother begins in a post on her blog. "I remember being an unabashed tomboy concerned with playing outside and acing 5th grade."
Sarah Palin's daughter continues on to reference an article asserting that students were receiving the procedure in school free of charge.
"This summer a report came out claiming that some schools in Washington were giving free birth control implants to children as young as 10 years old! These birth control devices are implanted in a girl's uterus, and all of this can be done without a parent's consent!"
Palin's concerns were sparked by a report on Judicial Watch, which claims to have obtained public records detailing the statistics of how many girls of each age received the device during that time period in the state of Washington.
"The records show that in 2014 and at least part of 2015, girls as young as 10 received the implants," Judicial Watch wrote. "The largest group of minors that got the birth control implants was 17 years old, according to the data, but girls much younger also received them.
"Four 11-year-olds got birth control from the state during the 2 ½- year period and so did more than 100 girls between the ages of 12 and 13. The numbers go up as the girls get older with 364 girls age 14 getting the implants and 744 15-year-olds. The records show that 2,336 girls ages 16 to 17 were given implants during this period."
However, while the report claims that children as young as 10 were given the device, it does not include the exact number of how many 10-year-olds actually received it.
These implants are a part of the state's new "Take Charge" program, which gives sixth graders the option to receive a "long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs)" if they are not abstinent, according to a spokeswoman for the program. Thirteen schools are reportedly taking part in the state-administered program.
While this program may come as a shock to some parents, Palin has shocked the public before on the topic of pregnancy when she famously announced she was expecting a baby at 18 years old after Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked her mom, Sarah Palin, as his running mate in 2008.
"It is crazy that the government is offering a controversial form of birth control that can have serious life-long side effects to 10-year-old CHILDREN," Palin continued. "To do all of this behind a parent's back is simply outrageous!"