Birth Control for Pre-Teens...What are We Coming To?

A school board in Maine is looking at a proposal that would allow a middle-school health center to prescribe birth control pills to students whose parents have given the health center consent to treat their children. What this means: children of ages 11-13 could have access to birth control pills with or without their parents' consent - parents must have signed consent to treat, but after that, services are considered confidential.

According to the report, only about 4% of students at the middle school reported being sexually active (which is about 4% too many!!!!). The real question, however, is this: will handing out birth control pills to students make that number more likely to decrease, or increase?

This is what liberals don't seem to understand about sex education: actions speak louder than words. (Most) Liberals say that kids shouldn't be having sex...and then they put mechanisms in place to make it easier for kids to have sex without having to deal with the consequences.

If a child of 11-13 years is sexually active, what he/she needs is a spanking, not birth control. Instead, liberals want to provide condoms and birth control pills to children, seemingly blind to the fact that this enables bad behavior. They knock "abstinence only" programs because they truly believe "kids are going to have sex anyway," then they do whatever they can to enable kids to have sex!!! Self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone?

The truth is that liberals want to remove any vestige of morality from the act of having sex - even for children 11-13 years old. No-consequences sex is damaging to our society, especially in light of the fact that birth control pills and condoms are not 100% effective. What's more, the level of emotional intimacy involved in having sex is, quite simply, inappropriate for children. Why not let our kids be kids, instead of filling their heads with sex ed at this young of an age?

These kids don't need birth control pills, they need to be grounded and taught what inappropriate behavior is (preferably by their parents).

UPDATE:
The measure has carried: the Maine middle school will offer birth control "pills and patches" to its students. If they're offering the birth control patch, then this may be even more problematic: the last I heard, there was strong evidence that the birth control patch caused cancer...and the last thing we need (after giving kids birth control) is giving kids cancer.