Birth Control at Middle School?

[to21]

http://www.wmtw.com/health/14350031/detail.html

PORTLAND, Maine -- A middle school in Portland may soon be offering birth control prescriptions to some of its students.

The student health center at King Middle School already provides condoms. On Wednesday, the Portland School Committee will consider a proposal to expand the program by allowing students who have parental permission to obtain prescriptions for birth control pills.

A state official said that if the school committee gives the green light, King would become the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to some students in grades 6 through 8.

[Little Devil]

With todays kids Elementary school would be more appropriate!

[ALVAREZ6]

That's fucked up.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

One of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the nation (for SA) is fucked up, too.

[peewee's lovechild]

I was a Middle School teacher for four years, you people have no idea how sexually active these kids are.

Fuck, contraceptives is not only a good idea, it is necessary.

[Duncan]

When I was in middle school I remember hearing about other kids getting laid all the time, it seemed like

I take it Tpark didn't go to your school! :lmao

[Melmart1]

What's fucked up is that the same people who don't want birth control easily accessible or abortions to be legal are the same ones who shun teenage mothers and are tired of their taxes being raised and going to the welfare that will be necessary when a 15-yr old who can't even get a job yet gives birth without insurance or income.

[T Park]

What's fucked up is that the same people who don't want birth control easily accessible or abortions to be legal are the same ones who shun teenage mothers and are tired of their taxes being raised and going to the welfare that will be necessary when a 15-yr old who can't even get a job yet gives birth without insurance or income.



Honest question.

Why should my tax dollars go to some girl cause she cant keep her legs closed?

[Melmart1]

Honest question.

Why should my tax dollars go to some girl cause she cant keep her legs closed?
It's either going to go for birth control, or to help raise the child for many years to come. Which is cheaper, and better for all parties involved? Think about it. You are going to pay either way.

[peewee's lovechild]

I have to agree with Melmart here.

[peewee's lovechild]

Of course, sterilization is another option.

We'll start with rednecks, hillbillies, and guys who feel a need to bang their sisters and cousins.

This will also rid us of the Republican Party.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Of course, sterilization is another option.

We'll start with rednecks, hillbillies, and guys who feel a need to bang their sisters and cousins.

This will also rid us of the Republican Party.

Even TPark found a way to keep this from denigrating from a civil discussion... there's no way you could have done the same?

[peewee's lovechild]

Even TPark found a way to keep this from denigrating from a civil discussion... there's no way you could have done the same?

I could've, but I'm bored.

And, that statement was just as ridiculous as saying "it's not my problem, why should I pay" and yet we are all forced to pay for a war we don't want that will have repercutions for years to come. Repercutions that our children and grandchildren will be paying for.

[Last Comic Standing]

Tpark has a great sense of Humor! If someone gave me a rubber in Jr high? I would feel obligated to use it!The sad part about all this is, kids are out of control and I blame the parents

[MaNuMaNiAc]

I had my first sexual experience when I was in 7th grade, and I used protection because my parents were smart enough to realize that they couldn't prevent me from having sex, just teach me to go about it safely.

[Mr. Peabody]

I had my first sexual experience when I was in 7th grade, and I used protection because my parents were smart enough to realize that they couldn't prevent me from having sex, just teach me to go about it safely.


Did you wear a rubber glove...?

[Gerryatrics]

I was celibate in Middle School. :depressed
If only my misguided, old-fashioned parents had handed me a couple of condoms and told me to knock myself out instead of teaching me about responsibility, self-control and, oh yeah, being a kid.

[Spurminator]

I was celibate in Middle School. :depressed
If only my misguided, old-fashioned parents had handed me a couple of condoms and told me to knock myself out instead of teaching me about responsibility, self-control and, oh yeah, being a kid.


The kind of bad parenting that has gotten us to a point where we have to consider giving birth control to junior high students might have been prevented in many cases if birth control was more easily accessible 10/20 years ago. Many of today's bad parents were yesterday's pregnant teens.