[Girljock]

Originally Posted by Carnie

Middle School in Maine to hand out birth control pills to students as young as 11 without parents' consent. I just picked this up in CNN right now. How do you feel about this? They've already been handing out condoms, but now moving up to birth control pills.

Is this a good idea? Isn't this sending the wrong message to pre-teen girls to engage in sexual activity at such a young age? Do you consider this morally "wrong?"

ya know..it's not like handing out tylenol. There are soooo many different doses of BCP and there is no way to know what to give someone without a proper blood workup and physical. At least at that young an age. An adult, can at least monitor symptoms and see if her cycle changes or anything...so you can afford to guess a bit more, but to just hand out a pill that changes hormones in your body....na...not a good idea.

I guess I just don't get the allure of sex at age 11. I'm quite sure I was riding a skateboard or playing house or something....I'm sure I wasn't thinking about sex...