Middle school to offer birth control
- added October 18, 2007
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- AshleyWard
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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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- AshleyWard
- 10 months ago
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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.
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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.
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More girls experience early pubertyBut 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. -
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.
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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.
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I agree with the idea of getting girls birth control and I totally support that, but I am also agreeing with what a lot of you guys are saying, that I do know how healthy it is to have young girls on hormones. Let's face it once you start birth control you will probably be on it for a while, I'm talking years, and I don't know if starting women on it earlier is safe. Like I said though I really like the idea of given younger women that power and resource.
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