Not All Are Pleased at Plan to Offer Birth Control At Maine Middle School

Plans to open a clinic in a Maine middle school has parents and students fuming. Although there are some that support the service, most and enraged at the fact that condoms, STD tests, and pregnancy tests are going to be offered within a school. Two days after the committee voted in favor of the clinic, a second vote was taken and the vote was 7 to 2 in favor of offering oral contraceptives.
Most parents take on the clinic is that is spreads the message that it is okay to be sexually active. Students will be able to see how easy it is to get protection and could get carried away without thinking of the consequences of having premature sex. The main reason the clinic was being considered in the first place was the fact that 17 girls became pregnant in the past four years, 7 of them becoming pregnant within the last year.
The program is designed to teach kids responsibility. If they are going to have sex, most likely nothing is going to get in the way of stopping them. Having a clinic available for them to at least protect themselves will not only cut down on teen pregnancy, but it could also put a stop in the amount of STD's that occur every year within the school.