Birth Control To Be Prescribed by Schools for 11 to 13 year
olds???
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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
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
and heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrres the clincher of it
all
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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.