Yesterday the Portland, Maine School Committee approved a plan that allows the health center of King Middle School to provide birth control pills and patches to students in the sixth grade. Parental consent or knowledge is not required. In fact, it is outlawed. Under Maine state law, once a parent has signed a waver allowing a child to be treated at a school clinic in case of sickness or injury, specific treatment is "confidential." Students (kids) decide for themselves whether to tell their parents about the services they receive.

It has also been revealed that the same middle school has been distributing condoms to students as young as eleven years old since 2002.

It?s a new low, but based on the dismal level of rational discourse among some parents, I?m afraid we haven?t hit rock bottom.

Duped by worst-case-scenario logic, these parents have lost common sense. They have relinquished their rights and responsibilities to the state.

Richard Verrier is a parent in the Portland School district. "If my daughter were not able to talk with me about something, if she couldn't reach me for whatever reason, to keep her safe and healthy, I would want to make sure she had access to those resources from trusted adults." Mr. Verrier?s idea of a trusted adult is abnormal. In the real world, a trusted adult does not give an eleven-year-old girl a birth control pill when the little girl comes to his office saying she is about to have sex and can?t reach her daddy. In this case, a trusted adult either makes contact with the parents or calls Child Services. If he can?t reach Child Services, he calls 9-1-1. ...

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