This is just sick.

After an outbreak of pregnancies among middle school girls, education officials in this city have decided to allow a school health center to make birth control pills available to girls as young as 11.

1. Our MIDDLE SCHOOLERS are having sex. A LOT of sex. WTF?
   
2. The use of "outbreak" with pregnancy makes this sound like a disease. Don't cough on me, I don't want to get pregnant! Having sex isn't a disease. Being retarded enough to have sex at 11? Maybe.
3. (I wonder how many of these were due to shopping malls. Maybe you have figures, H3W?)
   

...The other "no" vote Wednesday night came from Ben Meiklejohn, who said a parental consent form, which allows students to receive any kind of treatment at the school health center, does not clearly define the services being offered.

Some opponents cited religious and health objections.

Risks From Using the Pill:

• blood clots in the legs that can travel to the lungs;
  
• stroke;
  
• heart attack;
  
• liver tumors

Short term side effects to the Pill may include:

• nausea, vomiting;
• breast tenderness;
• weight gain or loss;
• spotting between periods

Pill "Danger Signals":

• sharp or crushing chest pain or coughing blood;
  
• shortness of breath;
  
• unusual swelling or pain in the legs or arms;
• sudden severe headaches;
  
• Changes in the frequency, severity, or associated symptoms of your headache;
  
• eye problems such as blurred or double vision or loss of vision;
  
• severe pain in the stomach or abdomen;
  
• yellowing of the skin or eyes;
  
• severe depression;
  
• unusually heavy bleeding from the vagina;
  
• lump in your breast;
  
• no period after having a period every month

Note: Using the Pill does not protect against sexually transmitted infections and a bad infection could cause sterility.