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Birth Control Pills and Patches in US Schools
October 18, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Sexual Health News
Administrators at a Portland middle school are Planning to make available birth control pills and patches to students. The school's female students are in grades six to eight and range from ages 11 to 13.
“We are considering a bold proposal that would allow students to access a broader range of contraceptives from the school's health center,” the administrators said.
The King Middle School's health center already provides condoms as part of its reproductive health program, implemented after five of the 135 students who visited the center last year reported being sexually active.
"We do certainly sit down and speak with them about why that's not a good choice," said Portland's school nurse coordinator Amanda Rowe of sexually active students. "But there are some who persist, even though we don't like to think about that in being sexually active, and they need to be protected."
"It will provide a means of making sure you don't get pregnant and ruin your school career and limit yourself in the future," Rowe said.
The Portland School Committee will consider a proposal that would make prescription birth control available to students who have parental permission to be treated at King Middle School's health center, said an announcement Wednesday.
If the committee approves the King proposal, it would be the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to some students in grades 6 to 8, said Nancy Birkhimer, director of teen health programs for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
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