Comments on: Maine School Defends Birth Control Program

Decision To Provide The Pill To Students As Young At 11 Sparks Controversy, Outrage

[Krazcarl]

I was born in raised in Maine left at 28 we are a little ahead of times in most situations everyone else catches up but this is ridicules I understand High school but not jr, high that is like giving permission if there active at that age I believe counselors are available to help them get on path or find out the whole story and bring those to justice to much of this filth going on they need help not not pills if your sexually active ar 11-13 there being ruined and the school doesn''t need to support it.

[michellem99-2009]

Here is an idea. Have them take care of baby like doll that is like real thing 24/7 as that be a lesson to wake them up to the parenting as they will not be so hell bent to that them till they are older,

[dmhphils]

The article says, "this is for a tiny number of sexually active students". If this is just a tiny number, why not respond in a different way other than giving away pills and flashing a green light to all the rest of the students that it is ok for them experiment sexually. Why extinguish the last remaining fragments of a guilty conscience by "giving them the tools" to commit the deed?

[likeitis5050]

the new policy is aimed at a tiny number of sexually active students.


What a joke. Since when does a ''tiny number'' become the focus of something that will impact the remaining ''larger number'' with such negative possibilities, except when the ACLU sticks its big fat nose into a high profile case? That ''tiny number'' stands a very good chance now of becoming ''epidemic'', which will be the next report out of the area: ''record number of STDs and HIV reported in area that approved birth control for middle school students''. All I can say is the boys in this district are in for some HUGE se...xual encounters...courtesy of the parents putting their daughters up for grabs.

[feelfree1]

Has anyone here ever read "Overpopulated China", by Wi **********?

[comment1-2009]

Oh, by the way, I do apologize to Norman Rockwell, for dragging his work into this debate, but if you''ve done your homework, you would know that his actual life was closer to this, than his paintings.

[comment1-2009]

If you don''t think 11, 12, 13 year olds are sexx-ually active, then you must not have read, seen TV, or listened to the radio for the last decade or more. Parents have been abdicating their responsibility to teach morals, and placing that burden on the schools, and then complaining about how they do it. For those religious whiners; they all seem to forget how the Catholic church has spent centuries torturing people into accepting ''god'', hiding child molesters, and when finally taken to task, have been continuing to hide behind bankrupcy, to avoid responsibility. For the christians out there, should we talk about the Jim Baker events, the Jimmy Swaggart situation, etc? Wake up! The kids aren''t living in the same ''Normal Rockwell'' world from the times when I grew up!

[grammawhamma]

If an 11 year old had a drug problem, would you supply him with needles? Why not, he is already involved in it, let''''s just keep it going.
Posted by sahia at 01:42 PM : Oct 19, 2007

Well that might be next...read the article under health about Safe Havens for Shooting Up. All I can do is shake my head in disbelief.

[prolegomena]

Anyone else need another reason to get your children out of the public schools?

Lord, have mercy...

[michellem99-2009]

We are talking about under age. Children..boys and girls..school age...Why does the school system have to thach this as it is not a school subject. Yer won''t be parents..Do you think teachers don''t have sexx with a pupil..some do..That is a way a teacher who know a girl is on the pill will be used for sexx. What is the matter here...Ye ought know the pill may not work. No form of birth control is baby proof. They watch TV,movies,listen to hip hop and more white do,dress like hookers, yer think it is cute. Teachers and parents are NOT the child''s friend. They are teachers and parents. Parents yer ever watch the music visuals..May be yer ouhght. Get in that child''s world. Things have changed since we were children..I know Maine living.

[rohink-2009]

This is the way of the secular progressives and left wing politically correct crowd. Total moral decay. That''''s what they want and we have to make sure we vote all their pals out of office starting with the Fed and all the way down to the individual town councils.

I wonder everyday what kind of an America will my grandchildren grow up in.

Posted by nexgen99

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I''m with you. There sure is a lot of ignorance in this country.

[yoopermom]

GrammaWhamma & LadyJaneG
I completely agree. A school has no right giving my child PRESCRIPTION medication without me knowing about it. This is much more than giving them a Tylenol or Tums. And as LadyJane has said, pregnancy is not the worse think that can happen. There are too many STDs out there. If they are going to be having s*e*x at this age I would bet that they are probably going to have multiple partners so who knows what they are spreading around.

As for the water balloons, I gave my son condoms a few years ago (he is now 18) to have {just in case} and this is exactly what they did with them!

[waralan]

I feel if we are believing young kids don''t pursue sexual activity, we have our head in the sand. It, therefore, seems more sense to prevent teen pregnancy

[ladyjaneg]

I agree with giving them condoms...the kids that are sexually active will hopefully use them. The 11 year olds that aren''''t sexually active can use them for water balloons.

I''''m not against giving the girls birth control pills if they have the parents permission.

What next...turn the girl''''s locker room into a confidential abortion clinic for those who forgot to take their pills??


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Posted by GrammaWhamma at 03:56 PM : Oct 19, 2007

Gramma, you just made my day, especially the water balloons remark!! LOL!!

[grammawhamma]

I agree with giving them condoms...the kids that are sexually active will hopefully use them. The 11 year olds that aren''t sexually active can use them for water balloons.

I''m not against giving the girls birth control pills if they have the parents permission.

What next...turn the girl''s locker room into a confidential abortion clinic for those who forgot to take their pills??

[michellem99-2009]

The blind centre was in Portland Maine. I am 53, I was talking to my friend who is my long time room mate. He told me years ago his mother was in hospital in SD in the 40s his mother shared a room with a 12 year old. that kid was there to have a baby. His mother an adult who was there for the same reason. His mother was birthing one of his older bros. We can read yer posts as we are the best spellers as the main thing is yer wish to share,

[antoniof123]

Let me see I really don''t care. You know why, because I raised my children and they know what would have happened to them but I also taught them like my wife to be careful. We spent time with them, now I have a son and he knows what will happen if he even thinks it. But hey I am just a dumb liberal. And I believe that Snow is the Republican Senator there. But what the hey if they want it must mean that the Republicans can''s raise their kids properly.

[michellem99-2009]

I knew nothing of the facts of life an adult. I was in foster homes and then a blind cenre in Portland. I was 28 and left that place with the gent I am still with. Dr, asked me about birth control. I said what the hell is that..The thing I was told by my late foster mothers was sexx is dirty..That was it. In my 20s I asked my then Dr to fix my tubes no sah she would not. I want it for health reasons..she said what about a man...I am not worred about the male..She still would not do it...The Drs need to listen to us patents and not their church.

[ladyjaneg]

Sorry about the typos! :)

[ladyjaneg]

Agreed, they shoudl have a source of protection avialable. But not just proctection from pregnancy. That girl was lucky, in the grand scheme of things that all she got was pregnant. She didn''t get herpes, HIV or anything. And I''m sorry,but those parents were stupid to let their 11 year old daughter hang around a high school boy--friend of brother or not. They should acted like parents.