The Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted an editorial titled, “Are schools encouraging students to have sex?” with two opposing sides.

The debate was spurred by the recent decision by a Maine middle school’s decision to offer contraceptives to students.

“Students have enough internal pressure toward sex; they need authority figures to help them fight it, not help them give into it!” wrote columnist Shaunti Feldhah.

The counterpoint by columnist Andrea Cornell Sarvady included the following:

Pregnant teens? No one wants that. Yet I doubt the solution lies with people like Pam Stenzel, a Bush appointee to the Department of Health and Human Service’s task force for abstinence education guidelines. Here’s Pam, when she thinks she’s only among “friends,” addressing the effectiveness of an abstinence-only curriculum at a religious convention: “I don’t care if it works, because at the end of the day… I’m answering to God.”

Who do you agree with? Is providing contraceptives legitimizing sex for minors and even pushing them to have sex at an earlier age?

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