MUCH ADO OVER BIRTH CONTROL FOR KIDS (aka Nothing)

So, parents are in a tizzie because some folks in Maine decide their kids deserve to have the option of contraception. People like Bill O'Reilly who make their living off of being alarmist had this to say in a story headlined "Birth Control Pills for 11-Year-Old Girls..." :

At the King Middle School in Portland, Maine, medical workers are allowed to give the girls as young as 11 birth control pills without their parents knowing about it.

The school board in Portland voted 7-2 to make that happen. The rationale is that some kids will have sex and the school must try to reduce pregnancies. Also, parents must sign a waiver allowing their children to receive medical care at the school.

However, that medical care is kept secret from the parents, in the birth control area.

Now giving sixth grade girls the pill is dumb. It doesn't protect them from disease and tacitly says that sex at that young age is understandable.

This is foolish, ridiculous, and irresponsible. But in the secular progressive world. The SP doctrine is to quote, "empower children" and downgrade parental authority because some parents are bad.

Right now seven states: Connecticut, Hawaii, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and New Hampshire have no parental notification laws concerning abortion. That means that if young girls in those states get pregnant, Planned Parenthood can set up the abortion and parents will never know.

That's actually pretty funny, Bill, but WRONG.

I was surfing around this new site I signed up for called Utterz.com, and found a post by an utterer (??) called PixelFish describing how kids do need permission to get birth control services according to an article covering the Portland, Maine birth control for kidz story at http://guardian.co.uk. Here's a cutting:

At King Middle School, birth control prescriptions will be given after a student undergoes a physical exam by a physician or nurse practitioner, said Lisa Belanger, who oversees Portland's student health centers.

Students treated at the centers must first get written parental permission, but under state law such treatment is confidential, and students decide for themselves whether to tell their parents about the services they receive.

Typical Bill O'Reilly--not very clear on the specifics. Kids can not tell their parents about the abortion, but to be treated in any way, they need to have their parents' permission. So, the abortion can stay secret, but the parents are still going to know something's up if the 'rentals care at all. If they don't want their kid to be having an abortion, then they should be paying more attention. I'm using "abortion" here because that's the word Bill used.

The point is, relax, folks! The set up is actually pretty reasonable. It leaves the kids with the responsibility to decide for themselves.

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Treating kids with respect!!

Of course, the parents can stop it any time they want by revoking their permission. So, ultimately the parents do have control.

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