Middle Schoolers on the Pill

The issue at hand in this article is that it could be a future possibility that middle school girls be put on the birth control pill or patch, that is if they come from lower income families and are not able to afford it on their own. One arrguement for this issue is that if these girls are choosing to have sex and they are not able to pay for the proper protection then the school must step in to help with this apparently growing problem. This side presses the point that some of these girls are older than most, and also that no matter what parents try to instill in their children they are basically going to do whatever they want to anyways. They want to make sure that the public knows that they will not be simply giving the girls the birth control , but that they will need to go through a counciling process first.

There are also many who are more than willing to defend an opposing veiw of the situation. One of the strongest agruements state that 11 year olds should not even be considering having sex at their age, let alone actaully having it. Someone of that age is probably barely physically and (probably not quite)emotionally mature enough to take on this responsibility that should be limited to much older individuals. Girls in this age range are probably not even mature enough to really understand their hormones and how these methods of birth control are supposed to work.

The side of the story that may be the most shocking is the side that they do not even address at all: the parents perspective. The parents would surley be unhappy if they knew that the school could possibly be telling their child that it is okay for their children to be having sex at their young age. A school is a place in which the parents should be able to trust with their childrens' health and safety, but it is also a place that parents should be inform of their students' actions as well. Parents in general need to know what their children are doing at nearly every stage of their schooling, at least while their children are still very young. With a subject as sensitive and delicate as this one the parents' point of view is a vital one to be taken into consideration.