Since when has it been the responsibility of schools to issue birth control to children? Half these pathetic schools out here cannot even teach children to read, write, and work basic math or science problems.
School officials on Thursday defended a decision to allow children as young as 11 to obtain birth-control pills at a middle-school health center, saying the new policy is aimed at a tiny number of sexually active students.
King Middle School will become the first middle school in Maine, and apparently one of only a few in the nation, to make a full range of contraception available, including birth-control pills and patches.
Students would need parental permission to use the city-run health center in the school, but they wouldn’t have to tell them they were seeking birth control. source
Don’t tell me that the world is not falling apart. Birth control pills are a medication. Schools can medicate our children without parental permission BUT cannot issue an aspirin if a child has a headache?
There is a direct link between birth control pills and strokes
Birth control pills and heart attacks
To push birth control pills off on people’s children is also a morality issue. If children want to sneak off and have sex, that’s on them. But it’s not the school’s job to give them tools to help them sin.
I see some lawsuits coming on and I hope they come soon.
Sex is not a child’s activity. It is an adult activity. Sex can lead to soooo many diseases such as herpes, Aids, HPV and on and on. Americans need to stop being so quick to allow further breakdowns on our family structure. Sex is not the schools’ business. Teaching academics is their business. And most can’t even get that right.
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I’ve been following your blog for a few weeks and just couldn’t pass commenting on this one. I have a daughter who is 11 and, thank God, is in a private school where they do not attempt to usurp a parent’s authority. I agree with what you have said. I was upset over the Merck vaccine, a company that has time and again hidden research of their medications’ safety. But the idea that if a child has a headache they will refuse aspirin but they want to assume that it’s ok to advocate sex before their minds can handle it. Which is what the pill to early does. they are setting up little girls to be destroyed emotionally, as if they aren’t broken enough as it is. As to the lawsuits, to whom will the parents sue if their daughter has a negative side affect? Even if you take away the fact that it’s wrong, what studies have been conducted to determine how this medicine will affect girls who have barely started their cycles? Will the school teach these kids about the emotional ramification of sex before they are ready, or will they just somehow justify it away? Won’t this also make it easier for old farts to hide their relationships with little girls? Who are they really protecting?
Welcome to HickTown,Yvette! This whole birth control issue regarding people’s children and young girls is very, very disturbing to me. This is a story I plan to follow.
What is wrong with that school system? Iam sorry, but if a 11 or 12 year old girl is sexually active, there is a problem with PARENTING!!! Birth control is not going to protect these girls, its going to enable (as Yvette put it) old farts to hide their relationships with little girls. So when a 11 year old girl gets an STD I guess the school system will leave the treatment for it up to the parents. SO MUCH FOR NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND!
You’re right Cop when a 11 or 12 year old start engaging in sexual actives it is an indication that something is wrong and most of the time the problem is a home with the parent(s). I don’t believe issuing birth control pills is addressing the problem. Most likely these kids have social and/or emotional issues. How can they justify keeping the parents unaware of what is going on. I believe in sex education, I even believe it is okay to have condoms in the nurses offices for high school students, however this is just too much for me. Could they not find some other way to address the problem of 11 and 12 year olds having sex. Could they not have meeting with the parents, community members, local non profits that address these type of issues to see how they could collaborate together to address sexual activity among young child. These band aid apporaches never fix anything and often they contribute to the problem.
A representative from the school system was on CNN yesterday trying to explain this policy and she basically said that children are going to have sex anyway because society his hypersexual. What a copout to assume that a child having sex is a foregone conclusion. Why not try to counter all these signals they are getting?
I don’t have children, but my sister is always telling me about her 15-year old son and how aggressive some of these little girls are – calling and texting him. And I saw some really inappropriate stuff that one fast tail girl posted on his myspace page. This is a parenting issue.
The school has no right to keep this information from parents. If I had a daughter, I would not want her to have birth control pills without my permission.
The sad thing about this is that if a little girl were to give a friend an aspirin in school she could be arrested for passing drugs in some schools. An over-the-counter headache medicine. But these people want to be able to dispense prescription medicine without parental permission. Why is there such a rush to give all of these medications to little girls? Too many people are unwilling to question what the government does to children unless it means increased taxes, then everyone sees it as their proplem.