ACLU: Birth Control Pills Don’t Belong in Schools

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(2007-10-18) - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed suit against King Middle School in Portland, Maine, over a new policy to distribute birth control pills to 11-to-14 year-old girls without parental notification. “Like all Americans, the ACLU is shocked,” said an unnamed spokesman for the civil rights group. “Birth control pills have no place in our government-run, taxpayer-funded schools, because they’re only useful for girls engaged in heterosexual activity.

Distribution of the pill is inherently discriminatory, favoring one sex and one particular sexual preference.” An unnamed school spokesman said an out-of-court settlement may be in the works. “The ACLU has told us they would drop the suit,” the source said, “if each prescription of birth control pills included a label instructing students that heterosexual activity is just one of many options available to young teens and pre-teens, and directing them to visit the school library to investigate the full range of sexual opportunities.”
ACLU Sues Middle School Over Birth Control Pills — as reported by satirist Scott Ott

Maybe this is a satirical shot at the ACLU but one really does need to question the sanity of what is going on in the American educational system. When did government run, tax payer supported schools become the substitute for proper parenting? How far will this insanity go? This news story in the MSM is just one more example of an entitlement crazed, permissive mentality where irresponsible parents now expect that their parenting responsibilities be delegated to their local public schools.

There may be a good chance that the decision of that school board to permit the distribution of birth control to girls as young as age 11 may in fact make them an accessory to statutory rape in a future court case. The legal age of consent in Maine we believe is 14 years of age. An angry parent of a child under 14 may in fact have a good criminal case against the school district if contraceptives were dispensed without their consent. Not sure, but we are checking on it… — ZZ

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