By removing the stigma of pregnancy, are we not taking one more step toward our children becoming (especially girls) sex toys?

The problem is not that young girls need birth control, but that we as society need to protect them from sexual predators.

In the end, all that birth control does is hide the problem. And this is what is so incredibly sad about what Maine is doing.

Regardless, giving birth control pills to 11-year-old girls could be seen as aiding the delinquency of minors. It could also be seen as giving a hand-up to older boys who think that because their younger girlfriends are able to get the pill without her parents’ knowledge, they can do whatever they like with them.

Also, birth control pills do not provide 100 percent protection from pregnancy, and they don’t protect at all against sexually transmitted diseases. Getting an STD is bad enough, especially if it’s something that can’t be easily treated with medication, or can’t be cured. But girls that young who get pregnant can have very, very serious health problems as a result — including an increased risk of death during childbirth or shortly thereafter.

I really wonder how closely the Maine school district is looking at these issues, and whether they’ve considered that parents might decide to sue them for providing prescription medication to their minor children without consent, contributing to the delinquency of minors, and basically laughing in the face of Maine law that says that children of that age aren’t legally able to consent to sex.

It doesn’t really matter that birth control pills can be prescribed for other medical reasons besides birth control. This is a serious issue, and, in my opinion, a serious misstep in the governing of this school.