If a parent gives the school permission to treat his child, then according to this school, that gives the school permission to prescribe birth control…to 11 year olds. It gets worse. The school does not have to tell the parents about the prescription.
Students who have parental permission to be treated at King Middle School’s health center would be able to get birth control prescriptions under a proposal that the Portland School Committee will consider Wednesday.
The proposal would build on the King Student Health Center’s practice of providing condoms as part of its reproductive health program since it opened in 2000, said Lisa Belanger, a nurse practitioner who oversees the city’s student health centers.
If the committee approves the King proposal, it would be the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to some students in grades 6 to 8, said Nancy Birkhimer, director of teen health programs for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Most middle schoolers are ages 11-13.
…Belanger said health center workers encourage students to tell their parents about their health center experiences, but by law they cannot compel students to do so or inform parents without the student’s consent.
Is this a big problem in this school? Are a lot of 11 year olds getting it on?
Of 134 students who visited King’s health center during the 2006-07 school year, five students, or 4 percent, reported having sexual intercourse, said Amanda Rowe, lead nurse in Portland’s school health centers.
“This is a service that is totally needed,” Rowe said. “It’s about very few kids, but they are kids who don’t have the same opportunities and access as other students.”
Four percent. I’ll wager right now that following the implementation of this program, that number rises. Why?
“Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. “
Every liberal idea is “totally needed.” Like sex education. It was totally needed. How did that work out? Oh yeah, we are in worse shape now than when that liberal program started. So, as per the norm with the left, rather than see they are the problem, they move for more control, more power.
