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Post Script By Phil Stanley on Friday, October 19, 2007 2:00:37 PM
The issue of drugs at school has taken a new twist. This week in Portland Maine a school board has approved the delivery of birth control pills to students as young as eleven. This same school has been dispensing condoms, apparently to insufficient effect, since 2000.
What can we expect if the pills are no more effective than the condoms?
Morning after pills are a small step. How about an on campus abortion clinic?
Now that the school is in the drug delivery business there are so many possibilities.
What about the severe problem of youth obesity? Should the school be giving out amphetamines and other diet pills?
Perhaps an out patient liposuction surgical suite would be useful. Other cosmetic proceedures could also be offered. We all know of the severe self-esteem problems adolescents face when plagued by a large nose, thin lips or weak chin. Surely this too is a matter for school intervention.
Since we all know that some students will engage in illegal drug use, shouldn't the school provide clean needles, and quality controlled cocaine, marijuana, and opiates?
Of course some would argue that medical, moral, and health care decisions regarding ones own children should be within the realm of parental authority, responsibility, and control. Then too there is the issue of cost associated with such a far reaching government program.
I am quite certain that Hilary and the democrats can concoct a plan to pay for these health care programs.
Maybe they already have.
Phil Stanley for Post Script