According to a new Associate Press poll, most people are comfortable with public schools handing out birth control to students. The poll also revealed that 62% believe handing out the pill will reduce pregnancies. But not everyone is supportive.
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Yet most who support schools distributing contraceptives prefer that they go to children whose parents have consented. People are also closely divided over whether sex education and birth control are more effective than stressing morality and abstinence, and whether giving contraceptives to teenagers encourages them to have sexual intercourse.
“It’s not the school’s place to be parents,” said Robert Shaw, 53, a telecommunications company manager from Duncanville, Texas. “For a school to provide birth control, it’s almost like the school saying, ‘You should go out and have sex.'”
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