When it occurs under the legal age…..

First thing off the top of my head was outrage and "what the heck are they thinking?!?!?!"

Students who have parental permission to be treated at King Middle School’s health center would be able to get birth control prescriptions under a proposal that the Portland School Committee will consider Wednesday.

The proposal would build on the King Student Health Center’s practice of providing condoms as part of its reproductive health program since it opened in 2000, said Lisa Belanger, a nurse practitioner who oversees the city’s student health centers.

If the committee approves the King proposal, it would be the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to some students in grades 6 to 8, said Nancy Birkhimer, director of teen health programs for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Most middle schoolers are ages 11-13.

Then, the more serious side kicked in and the four letter word came out: RAPE!!!  The age of consent is 16 in Maine – far older (in many ways) than these KIDS!

What are these two chuckleheads thinking!?!?!?!  They are making it more possible for an 11, 12, or 13 year old kid to be raped!  It doesn’t matter to them, does it?  They have an agenda and are willing to ignore the fact that even if it is with those of the opposite sex their own age it is still RAPE.

Although students must have written parental permission to be treated at Portland’s school-based health centers, state law allows them to seek confidential health care and to decide whether to inform their parents about the services they receive, Belanger said.

And so much for keeping parents involved – let’s continue to point out that they can be excluded! 

Proponents say a small number of King students are sexually active, but those who are need better access to birth control.

Of 134 students who visited King’s health center during the 2006-07 school year, five students, or 4 percent, reported having sexual intercourse, said Amanda Rowe, lead nurse in Portland’s school health centers.

"This is a service that is totally needed," Rowe said. "It’s about very few kids, but they are kids who don’t have the same opportunities and access as other students."

It’s always about the children, isn’t it? That phrase covers all sinful activity in this area – for if you want to forget about God in this situation, it still is against Man’s law. And these health professionals are all for some kids, however few, for breaking the law.

I wonder if the parents of these ‘few" kids, if they ever get wind of this, would sue the pants off these "professionals".

When it all comes down to it, free love is not free.  The payment may not be monetary, but somebody will eventually pay for it.