Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
Two thoughts: Parents needed to give children permission to visit the health center. This seems like a reasonable precaution.
That would defeat the purpose of even handing them out in the first place.

Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
We know from rigorous studies that abstinence education does not work. We also know that a very small percentage of middle-schoolers will, in fact, get pregnant. My moral outrage at the thought of twelve-year-old girls getting access to birth control is outweighed by my horror at the thought of pregnant seventh graders.
I have zero moral outrage at junior high kids getting birth control. Considering the sheer number of sexually active 13 and 14 yearolds (high school starts at grade 10, 15 yearsold here) I went to junior high with.