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The answer is definitely not! Birth control should not even be a concern of the school system. The school was originally set in place to accomplish one goal. And that goal is to educate and prepare children for their future. Apparently, the educational system has lost sight of this somewhere along the way. But don't get me wrong, in a society where the parents are refusing to rear their own children, the schools are almost forced to do the parents' job.

I stick to my answer of the question because it is simply not the school's job to hand out birth control of any form to its students. Nor should the schools be put in the place of having to inform teens about birth control. This topic should be discussed away from the school campus.

First off, I would just like to say that teenagers have no business taking birth control in the first place, unless they are married. Being a teenager myself, I do realize how prevalent fornication has become, despite the fact that God has stated repeatedly throughout the Holy Bible (KJV) that no fornicator shall enter the kingdom of heaven. But sex among teenagers is being condoned and accepted as a normal way of growing up and maturing when it has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Parents should teach their teenagers about fornication, then enforce the rules. A topic such as birth control should not even be talked about between parents and their children unless the child in the spotlight is preparing to be married, or is married.

Yet, if the parents just want their children to be "in the know", they could simply tell them what my parents tell me quite frequently, "The only effective birth control is abstinence." Teens will never have to be concerned about birth control if they just heed to God's commandment and "abstain from youthly lusts."

In my opinion, the school has indeed overstepped its boundaries by handing out birth control to its students. It is very good and considerate of them to be concerned with "aborting" this problem, but this is a matter that needs to be controlled by the parents or guardians of the students. Because in essence, if the teen is not taught against fornication, and they receive birth control from their school, it is just as if the school has given that particular teen the permission to do what God has ordered mankind not to do. The same can happen if the school hands out birth control to a teenager that HAS been taught. Because children will be children, they will find a way around the system. Where there is a will, there is a way.

And to the teenagers themselves, don't just PRACTICE abstinence, BE ABSTINENT! Believe me, I am a witness, that it can be done. I graduated high school this year, emotionally free from all the turmoil that can ever be caused by being in a relationship that was not intended for me by God. So when your school offers free birth control, tell them No Thank You, because you already have some birth control. And that is Abstinence with the help of God.

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