Green | October 18, 2007 | 7 comments

Middle school to offer birth control

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21358971/

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Students at a Portland, Maine middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center.
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7 comments // Middle school to offer birth control

  • eray
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      eray  

    • If you can conceive, you're not too young for contraceptives. At 13 most people are so full of hormones that a little more can hardly hurt, and I doubt the school would prescribe OCs (oral contraceptives, not orange counties) for the kids if they thought it would screw them up.

    • 4 years ago
  • mustng0sally
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      mustng0sally  
    • eray:

      I agree. I went to middle school in Maine, and remember a classmate getting pregnant in 7th grade. By senior year, 4 other girls had also had babies. My family moved to California when I started high school, and I only heard of one girl from my school becoming pregnant before graduation. I absolutely believe that comprehensive sex education, and free birth control could have prevented some of these pregnancies.

    • 2 years ago
  • tching
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      tching  

    • Your right khsing... I've been reading that girls are experiencing puberty earlier, but I'm still wondering about long term effects of added hormones at such a young age. It's a tough call, but I lean toward what the school is doing since it's better to have it available than not (better safe than sorry?)... tough tough call.

    • 4 years ago
  • khsing
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      khsing  
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    • But tching, aren't more girls experiencing puberty earlier now? I can't really say if this is right or not for girls, or whether the way they're going about this is best. I do think that it should be made available in some capacity, though I wonder how available it should be for people of this age.

    • 4 years ago
  • tching
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      tching  

    • It makes me wonder if it is safe for a girl that young (and most likely mid-puberty) to be taking these hormone filled pills. I wonder what effects that can have on her development.

    • 4 years ago
  • khsing
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      khsing  

    • What does everyone think about this move? I'm in the camp that the more education, the more aware you are of the consequences of your actions, which is always a positive.

    • 4 years ago
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