Birth control at schools in maine, shouldnt this be everywhere?

Question

I was raised in Orlando Fl in a upper middle class high school. I knew no one that was a virgin after they were 15, i had heard of rumors of them in the really unattractive kids.
My point is that my experience was that we had all had sex by the time we were 15, most were 12 and 13. Several girls maybe 20 that i knew dropped out from pregnancies...Telling kids not to do it is like talking to a chair. Why is there so much opposition to it? It seems necessary to me,,,,

everybody breaking the law doesnt mean we should get rid of it....
lol

the majority rules.. in a democracy. not the christian right....

Answer 1

I'm at least two generations out of touch...but I have never heard that passing a law stopped sex. I feel that demanding abstinence is just peeing in the wind : you may preach to the choir, but do you know what the choir's up to when you're not looking ?
If laws won't work, what will ? Better parenting ?
I don't feel that preventing a pregnancy is condoning sex, but I'm not the parent of a 12 year-old ,either.

Answer 2

Certain areas, yeah, what you describe is typical. Most kids have sex around age 12. That's awfully young, we aren't cavemen, raising children is a lot of work and requires an ability to support yourself and a family. What happens if you conceive a child? Oh wait, you can kill it, that's right, I forgot.

You think it's OK to give out birth control in schools because you had sex at a young age. Just because sex is great and you love it doesn't mean that's the best choice. What if you got an STD? What if you got a girl pregnant, and she kept the baby? You'd be paying child support now, or you might have an incurable disease for your life. It's pretty rare depending on what community you're in, but it has happened and will continue to happen.

Giving out birth control tells the kids to go out and have sex. Now, sex is great, but it requires a lot of responsibility in the case complicated events come up around it. Rarely the case, but it will probably happen at some point, especially the more active you are. If you really want to know why it's bad, read the book "Brave New World". It will tell you everything, and it was written in the 1930's and the author's predictions of life today and the consequences of it are quite astounding.

Answer 3

Keep the government out of my family! I will give my daughter birth control when it comes to that time. The last thing I need is the government giving my kids things that other parents don't approve of. Plus in Maine it is not a secret. The parents have to be told when their kids are getting birth control. The government has no place in our childern's sex lives! If the kid is going to get birth control their parents can throw down the $30-$50! Let's force parents to be parents again! The last thing we need is for the government to come in and have the people truly think it is the inefficient governments responsibility to give our kids birth control. Another thing is girls develop cancer easily if they are given the contraceptives at too young an age. Will there be better monitoring in the public schools? I think that is obvious, NO! What about the taxpayer who truly doesn't believe in contraceptive in the first place! Is it fair to FORCE that person to pay for it in a free country? Furthermore....When contradictory messages are given to children from important authority figures such as parents and school officials, it can create more confusion and difficulty for children themselves in making this important life decision. The continual message of hey, here you go, try it out will always lume. Please people limit the government and increase the private choice! We need less big brother and big sister in our lives, not more of it! ~ Libertarian

Answer 4

there is opposition because at 11 these kids are way under the age of consent..and just because everybody breaks a law doesn't mean we should get rid of the law


ADDED:the majority rules.. in a democracy. not the christian right....

now that i do find funny since it was the democracy that made these laws not the christian right (if the christains had made the laws sex would be 100% illegal unless you are married)

Answer 5

I do believe that the resources should be available to kids at school, whether it is going to talk to the school nurse and her having on hand information on where and how to obtain birth control as well as a pile of literature with regards to sexual health.

I do not object to having condoms available in high schools, however the condoms should come taped to the inside of an information booklet talking about how condoms are not 100% and that abstinence is the only safe sex.

There should also be the addresses and numbers and websites of every local family planning clinic
It is no coincidence that countries like Sweden who boast an extremely comprehensive sex ed program are also the nations with the lowest teenage pregnancy rate as well as lowest abortion rates.

Answer 6

my question is, why are girls such sluts these days?! seriously! I was in my first year of college before I had sex (and it had nothing to do with being unattractive!) It had everything to do with the fact that I wasn't a moron and I respected myself. These young girls nowadays think like you, that if they haven't had sex by the time they are 15 there is something wrong with them! That's bull and its backwards thinking people like you that encourage middle schoolers to have sex! I was never necessary for BC to be given out in middle school when I went. I'm 25 now and I think it is appauling that Maine is doing this! Again, it's just another way for society to encourage children having sex!

Answer 7

One of the arguments against providing such access is that "age of consent" laws conflict with giving access to birth control to children younger than that age, thus, implicitly condoning statutory rape. I don't happen to agree, but that is one of the major arguments I have heard against providing the access.

Another is that parents have a right to know when/if their child is taking medication or receiving other medical treatment. Although parental permission to visit the clinic would need to be given, it is a blanket permission to visit the clinic with the understanding that no specifics about treatment received, etc. would be available to the parent.

Finally, since the only way to deny the child access to birth control is to deny permission to visit the clinic, the worry is that some children requiring medical attention (not birth control related) would not receive it, if the parent had denied access to the clinic.

Answer 8

I believe that the kids that are doing it should do it as "safely" as possible, if that means condoms and birth control pills, so be it.
But I think that parents should be aware of this policy, if you have to sign a permission slip for your middle schooler to go on a field trip I think that parents should have to sign permission slips for their middle shcooler to have access to contraceptives. Those parents that are against it can opt not to sign and therefore their kid can not get the contraceptive at school.
Yet Family Planning will still give it to them w/o parental permission.

Answer 9

Parents not being informed, and quite frankly the assumption that the students involved in sexual activity are doing so with other children of the same age. Dang school board might have approved the action to protect on of their own.

Answer 10

Because like the typical Liberal, you look to any solution other than personal responsibility.

Passing out needles, contraceptives, etc. gives the appearance of acceptance on the part of the government for the behaviors that are, in fact, illegal.

How about teaching abstinence? And if they don't, that's on them, and they need to be held ACCOUNTABLE for their actions.

And besides, the main problem with this whole thing is that the parents will not be told if their daughter gets them or not. It's a "privacy thing." Give me a break!