Most Adults Favor Birth Control in Schools
I recently wrote about a Maine middle school who would like to pass out birth control without parental consent to its students. I have read some other articles about it as well. I am not in favor of schools giving any medication out to my children without my permission, there are many health risks involved with medicating anyone. I also don’t think a middle school child some who are as young as eleven years old are mature enough to remember to take a pill the same time every single day to prevent pregnancy.
Also if we let eleven or twelve year olds have birth control are we lowering the age of consent? I think we are.
Are condoms as readily available? I wonder if boys are being taught about STDs and prevent pregnancy as much as the girls are.
Is taking a pill every day giving these children a false sense of security to prevent pregnancy but STDs?
A new poll that came out on Thursday shows that my opinion is not in the majority. The survey of 1,004 adults found that those who were younger and from cities or suburbs were more likely to support no restrictions, while minorities, older and lower-income people were more likely to favor parental consent, the AP reported. Sixty seven percent of adults favor allowing public schools to provide birth control to students. Sixty two percent said they believe providing contraception would reduce the number of teen pregnancies.
I wonder what you think of schools handing out contraceptives without parental consent. Let me know in the comments.
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November 2nd, 2007 at 8:35 pm
You and I are in the minority then. I agreed completely with your previous post. I would much rather have condoms readily available then have powerful hormones handed out to children who aren’t done maturing physically. Does anyone know what the side effects and risks are on women that young?
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