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First of all, what does it matter which is worse? Does that somehow make pole dancing for 7 year olds ok? It's okay to sexualize prepubescent children because some pubescent children are sexually active and request birth control from the school nurse?
Second of all, you're blowing things out of proportion and skewing the facts to make it seem more alarming than it actually is. I'm pretty sure you got your "facts" from an article written by Bill O'Reilly. Try reading some other articles about it before running with whatever that lying, agenda-driven gasbag says and treating it like gospel. He'll have you believe that there is a Secular Conspiracy afoot, trying to Sexualize our Young Girls, when in reality the school is responding to the fact that some middle school students are sexually active and are asking for birth control, and unwilling to confide in their parents about it. I guess you and the Bill O'Reilly's of the world think the appropriate response to a sexually active middle school student is to let them suffer the punishment of teen pregnancy and/or STDs that they so rightly deserve for disobeying the word of God. Of course you do.
The age of 11, which saeems very alarming, comes from the fact that the youngest kids in middle school are 11 years old, not that 11 year olds are sexually active or are asking for and receiving birth control. Also, the school isn't giving out BC alone; they've had condoms available since 2000. And this doesn't promote sex, the percentage of middle school students in that school having sex has dropped since then.
Furthermore, the parents have to sign a consent order to allow their kids to have medical care at the school, otherwise the kid won't have access to the health center at the school and won't be able to get condoms or birth control if they want them. And the parents who sign the consent form do so knowing that there is a potential their kid could covertly start taking the pill. So if some parent has a problem with this, they simply don't sign the consent form.
