Birth control in schools... middle schools!?

[lars573]

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.

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.

[HoreTore]

The fact of the matter is, kids do have sex. There's no real point in a moral outrage at giving them access to birth control.

[Samurai Waki]

Better having the precautions at 12, than a mother at 13.

I'm with Lemur.