Before getting to the immediate matter at hand, and because of your swift action and vocal concern, I wanted to report a major victory in our recent nationwide campaign to protect military funerals ...

Vice President Cheney has said that the flag-folding recitation with religious references can be part of military funerals at the nation's 125 veterans' cemeteries.

I am pleased with the outcome of this matter and applaud concerned members of the ACLJ who played a role in its resolution.




Now, I want to call your attention to another serious issue where your voice can make a real difference ... because what is happening right now in Portland, Maine, should actually concern you.

The Portland School Committee has overwhelmingly voted to begin distributing prescription birth control pills and patches to students in Grades 6 through 8 at King Middle School.



Add your name immediately to our online Petition to Protect Children. We must send a powerful, united message to the school district in question: Change this troubling policy immediately and hand the responsibility of school-aged children back to their parents.
It is beyond disconcerting to think that students - as young as 11 years old - can freely obtain a full range of prescription contraceptives at school ... even without their parents' permission.

This is an outrage that cannot be ignored! Your parental authority could very well be on the line. What happens at this school could have tremendous repercussions for you and your children and grandchildren.

Yet even more troubling ... while the school district's health program is distributing contraceptives to minors, the law in Maine prohibits anyone from engaging in sexual relationships with a person under the age of 14, regardless of the age of the other person involved.

In fact, a healthcare provider is required to report all known or suspected cases of sexual relations with minors age 13 and under to the Department of Health and Human Services.

However, the Portland School Committee has taken matters into their own hands, usurping parental responsibility and state law on this issue ... not to mention sending a mixed - AND DAMAGING - message to their students.

Add your name to our online PETITION TO PROTECT CHILDREN right now and demand that this disturbing reproductive health services policy be immediately revoked at King Middle School.

We are at work on this troubling situation. I commissioned some of our senior lawyers to prepare a legal memorandum to the school concerning the policy. Our Legal Director for Maine, Steve Whiting, will be present at the School Board Committee hearing at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 7th. We sent a demand letter to school officials requesting that this damaging policy be changed.

It is outrageous that young, impressionable students can get immediate access to prescription medicines, including birth control, without parental consent.

If you are as concerned as I am by the bold power-play of the Portland School Committee, then speak out by adding your name to our online PETITION TO PROTECT CHILDREN immediately.

Let's end this radical move right now before the headline reads: Middle school birth control plan coming to a school near YOU.

We will keep you posted on this disturbing issue. Thank you.



PLEASE SIGN PETITION!


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Though I am Pro Life I am concerned that by saving the unborn with aggressive legislation and laws we many times become so rigid we sometimes cause spiritual abortions among those who have yet know Jesus.

When a non-Christian see someone slandering, judging even attacking those at abortion clinics, if they were undecided about Jesus before thay more often than not say no to Jesus' Gospel because of those Christians who disobey Jesus by standing in judgment of outsiders. If a person's heart is hardened against Gospel by Christians who hatefully misuses the purpose of God's law then in my opinion that person might cause a non-Christian to have a permanette spiritual abortion.

The abortion debate must be handle with much more love

My two cents.

Agree. But sexual education belongs to parents, and not to the school.

Anne, isn't it crazy that the government won't allow schools to dispense tylenol to students but wants to ok giving birth control to 11 year olds! It boggles the mind.


The abortion debate must be handle with much more love

The abortion industry does not care about women. I have been through it. The women are treated so coldly! It was like an assembly line; first they get everybody's money, then all of us were told to change into paper gowns, then herded as a group into a very cold waiting room where we sat for over an hour. Then they just started rushing everyone through. It was incredibly de-humanizing. But then I guess that's what they're all about.

Agree with you on all points.