Maine Middle School To Offer Birth Control- CNN Education
This article struck out when I saw the title. It is about how schools in Portland, Maine are offering Birth Control pills to those in middle school who are pregnant and do not want to have a baby. They just started to offer these pills at the schools health center. All the kids need to get these pills is, to have there parents get them into the health canter by saying they are sick or some excuse that they make up to there parents. The kids do not have to tell their parents about the birth control pills just need parents to get them into the health center. I think this is a very big issue, kids at the ages of 11-14 having sexual intercourse. What is are world coming to today? Is it that kids are watching movies and TV ads that talk about having sexual interaction and want to try it for them selves? I believe in my religion as a catholic that I should not have premarital sex. I think that when you hear that “5 out of 134 kids have had sexual intercourse” that this is wrong in so many ways. This can go with the law of rape and going against so many beliefs that people have. So lets say for instants that you have 2,110 kids at your school.(I got this number from the Arapahoe website on how many kids we have enrolled.) This would mean out of all those kids in the school that 79 kids would have had sexual interaction. I would believe this is a very large number of students in high school to be having premarital sex. I think that parents need to be talking to their kids about this issue and kids need to be telling their parents if something does happen.
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I'm not sure that the highschool to middleschool example is relevant. In highschool there are probably a lot more people that have sex since by senior year a lot of the kids are already 18. I think that getting birth control just by going to the health center is a problem, they should at least have a permision slip from their partents to get it. And I dont think any person should have sex before they turn 15 because it's dangerous if your to young. And the kids probably do get the ideas from tv and probably do want to try it, but even if their partents do talk to them about it that wouldn't have much effect because when kids want to do things if their parents say somthing the dont always listen.
I'm not sure i agree with Kyle. Many places require a permission slip from parents to recieve birth control, and a lot smaller number don't. Yes, I think people should wait to have sex for a lot longer than many do, but just because they should, doesn't mean they will. Infact, that makes them morelikely to do it. I know a friend who has recieved birth control form one of the places where you do not need a permission slip and it's probably helped her a lot. I know that if she had to tell her parents to get it, that she would have just gone without birth control and had unsafe[r] sex without it. I'm not saying this is right, but I think it's better than nothing.
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