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By Randy Hall
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(CNSNews.com) - A conservative legal group demanded on Monday that a school district in Maine abandon its policy of distributing prescription contraceptives to students as young as 11 years old without parental consent or become the target of a lawsuit to have the policy struck down.
"This policy is simply unacceptable and must be removed without delay," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), in a letter to John Coyne, chairperson of the Portland School Committee, which approved the code for students in grades 6-8 at King Middle School.
"The school district has a window of opportunity to correct this," Sekulow told Cybercast News Service. However, "if that does not happen, the ACLJ will not hesitate to bring a lawsuit on behalf of concerned parents to get this policy removed."
Sekulow added that the organization's legal director for Maine, Steve Whiting, will be present when the committee meets on Wednesday to reconsider its Oct. 17 decision to allow the school's health center to give out contraceptives - including birth-control pills and patches - to students between 11 and 15 years of age.

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Conservative Bloggers Comments:

The school board or similar institution in Maine that approved the distribution of birth control to children between the ages of 11 and 15 WITHOUT parental consent should have their collective heads examined. It is certainly negligent and borderline criminal to have passed this measure. Thankfully there is a group of concerned parents willing to head to court of necessary to get this ridiculous rule removed immediately. How a group of board members can get to a decision like this to be implemented in the first place just makes me scratch my head.

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