As we have all heard, there is a school board in Maine that has voted to hand out birth control pills to students. Some of the students as young as 11 years old.
Okay to keep myself from a hysterical tyrade about the whole inmorality issue, which trust me, you will see me go balistic on. So here is 2 MAJOR points I would like the bring up.
Number 1. Now I do not know about you, but in the 2 schools my son has been in the parents must sign a consent form allowing the school nurse to give my 7 year old asprin. It is my understanding that this is a very common requirement in a majority of school across the country. Now I do not know if this is the policy in this particular school district, but I would think it should be. So it brings me to my point, this school district possibly cannot give a student an asprin without parental consent, but they can hand a 11 year old a packet of birth control without the parents consent?
Number 2. Now let me tell you, as a person with medication allergies, this is by far my most serious point. Lets say one of these girls recieves and uses the birth control pills. Fast forward a few days or a couple of months. She becomes ill or has an accident. What is one of the first questions that a doctor or EMT asks her or her parents. “Is the patient currently on any medication?” Okay now you run the risk that the young girl, not wanting her parents to know she is on the pill, or may be unable to communicate and so the parent cannot tell the doctor that she is on birth control BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW!
What potential medical ramifications could result of a school district playing doctor? Do they bother to check the child medical history? Probably not.
Discuss?
Totally agree. Completely agree!
The point about the doctors asking the parents if the child’s on mdeication. So true.Handing out condoms is one thing, but pills….
It’s in a way – I’m being crude but – drug dealing.
Hmm…