Contraceptives in Middle Schools
If you are following the latest updates on which American school clinics are going to make contraceptives available to Middle and High school students, here is an interesting article from the Los Angeles Times.
6 Denver High Schools may offer Birth Control
“DENVER — At least once a day, a teenage girl walks into North High School’s health clinic, wanting to find out whether she’s pregnant. Frequently, it turns out she is.
The city’s teen birth rate is more than double the statewide rate of 24.3 births per 1,000 girls age 15 to 17, and Denver school officials are considering a proposal to dispense contraceptives in its six high-school-based health clinics, which serve the district’s most impoverished students.
The recommendation by a task force studying the future of the clinics comes shortly after a highly publicized case in Portland, Maine, where a local school board allowed a clinic to dispense birth control to middle-school students.
The Denver proposal would affect only high school students, but it has raised similar concerns: Opponents say the easy availability would encourage youngsters to have sex….read more
