| Birth Control in Middle Schools Debated http://www.npr.org/template... Birth Control Articles NPR News - Weekend Edition Sunday , October 21, 2007 · A decision to offer the pill and other methods of contraception to children at a middle school in Portland, Maine, has touched off all sorts of controversy. The Portland School Committee voted this week to ... |
| Clinton says parents should have a say in birth control for teens http://www.boston.com/news/... Birth Control Articles Boston Globe - PORTLAND, Maine -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton supports local control on birth control decisions in schools. But she also says parents shouldn't be left out of the process. Clinton told WGME-TV after a rally in Durham ... |
| Maine middle school to offer birth control pills http://www.freep.com/apps/p... Birth Control Articles Detroit Free Press - PORTLAND, Maine — Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening. The plan, offered by city health officials ... |
| News Minute: Birth control for kids...Bhutto back...Teresa Brewer dies http://www.wdam.com/Global/... Birth Control Articles WDAM-TV - PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A plan backed by Portland, Maine, health officials and OK'd by the school board last night will make prescription birth control available to middle schoolers. They already had access to condoms. Adding to the controversy: they ... |
| Family-Planning Appointment Denounced http://www.newsday.com/news... Birth Control Articles Newsday - NEW YORK - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joined birth-control advocates Thursday in demanding that the Bush administration withdraw an appointment that places federal family planning funds under the control of a woman they consider hostile to ... |
| EDITORIAL: Provide condoms, pill, not day care, diapers http://www.iowastatedaily.c... Birth Control Articles Iowa State Daily - Last Wednesday, the Portland, Maine, school committee made the correct move when it decided one of its middle schools' student health centers would provide more birth control options to students. King Middle School, comprising sixth through eighth ... |
| Poll shows support for birth control in schools http://www.kansascity.com/n... Birth Control Articles Kansas City Star - WASHINGTON | People favor letting public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll shows. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said they supported ... |
| In brief http://www.baltimoresun.com... Birth Control Articles Baltimore Sun - Out of the mishmash of hormone studies researchers have been serving up lately comes some good news: Birth-control pills do not cause cancer. According to a 36-year survey of some 46,000 British women, use of oral contraceptives may actually reduce a ... |
| School Board Approves Birth Control Prescriptions at Maine Middle ... http://www.foxnews.com/stor... Birth Control Articles FOX News - PORTLAND, Maine — Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening. The plan, offered by city health officials ... |
| School Board OKs Birth Control for Middle Schoolers http://www.npr.org/template... Birth Control Articles NPR News - Day to Day , October 18, 2007 · School board members in Portland, Maine, approved a city plan last night to make prescription birth control available to students at one if its middle schools. Portland School Committee member Lori Gramlich who voted ... |