‘The Pill’ prescribed for Middle School Students - School Board Agrees

Written on October 18, 2007 – 3:22 am | by Bill |

Students at a middle school in Portland, ME, with parental permission, can get birth control pills at the middle school’s health center.

The school has been providing condoms as part of its reproductive health program since it opened in 2000.

The students need parental permission, BUT, state law will allow them to seek confidential health care and decide whether or not their parents will be informed.

I don’t get it.

The lead nurse - “This is a service that is totally needed,” - for the 4% or five students of 134 who came to her health center during last school year and reported having sexual intercourse.

Let’s see…5 kids were stupid. Okay…let’s make the pill available for all of them….and all will be well.

Portland, ME city’s Division of Public Health made the birth-control proposal.

11-year olds on the pill.

I guess that makes sense to some people…but, Lord knows, I’m not one of them.

What do you think?

  1. One Response to “‘The Pill’ prescribed for Middle School Students - School Board Agrees”

  2. By Helen on Oct 18, 2007 | Reply

    That’s a good way to kill a lot of 11-year olds. Although the “Pill” has improved a lot since I took it eons ago, with the result of multiple thromboses directly attributable to the medication, who knows what the updated pill is capable of doing? Particularly to a not-yet fully formed young body.

    Prevention through abstention anyone?
    H.

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