A Maine woman has lodged a formal complaint about a sex education book, saying it violates the city’s obscenity ordinance.

JoAn Karkos refused to return the book, “It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie H. Harris, and urged police to issue a citation against Lewiston Public Library. The library eventually had police issue a summons for the book’s return.

According to other news articles, Karkos learned about the book from American Life League’s protest of the book, including a full-page advertisement in the Washington Times last year that likened the book to porn.

The American Life League released a video news release about the book this week. The American Life League is an opponent of Planned Parenthood and says it plans to release other news releases about the pro-choice organization’s activities. Planned Parenthood published an interview with the book’s author last year in which he responded to critics’ objections to his book.

How explicit do you think children’s sex education books can be without being too much for kids? Have you read or seen this book? You can read excerpts of the book.

A task force has recommended that Denver high schools offer birth control, according to the Los Angeles Times. The school board has not formally considered the recommendation, but the proposal has stirred the debate about whether schools should provide contraception and, if so, whether parental consent should be required.

Denver’s teen birth rate is “more than double the statewide rate of 24.3 births per 1,000 girls age 15 to 17, and Denver school officials are considering a proposal to dispense contraceptives in its six high-school-based health clinics, which serve the district’s most impoverished students,” according to the article.

Opponents say the easy availability would encourage youngsters to have sex.

Proponents counter that sexually active teens should have as much access to birth control as possible.

Recently, a Maine school decided to offer birth control to middle schoolers, leading to controversy and widespread publicity. But most of the country’s school-based health clinics do not dispense contraceptives, according to a spokeswoman for the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care quoted in the L.A. Times article.