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Birth control at Canby High's health center

Nearly 70 community members showed to a board meeting where Canby School Board members unanimously denied a proposal that would have given students access to birth control prescriptions through their health center.

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    Pretty full room at Canby High for decision on birth control on campus. Will tweet intermittently. For background: http://t.co/BWpa0lmF
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    Superintendent John Steach thanking students, staff and community as discussion starts about school-based health center. #canby
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    Student Hunter Mead outlining proposal: nurse-practitioner on campus would prescribe birth control pills, patches, rings, Depo-Provera .
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    Mead also notes that proposal would not have condoms, spermicide, IUDs available on campus. #canby
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    Sup. John Steach now going through district's community survey about birth control on campus. 57.9% were against the proposal. #canby
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    Another stat: 54.7% of current Canby High parents who took survey were against having birth control prescriptions on campus. #canby
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    Brendan Murphy says it was an odd choice to exclude condoms in proposal, asks student advisor Trevor Lockwood to explain why. #canby
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    Lockwood says students wanted to make proposal less controversial because mentioning "condoms" seemed very "inflammatory." #canby
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    Public comment section about to start. Apologies if I butcher spellings; will try my best. I'll correct them for any Oregonlive posts #canby
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    A resident says she doesn't think it's fair that the majority of the adults who "speak loud, beat Bibles" should decide for everybody.#canby
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    Resident Brian Hudson asking about how much county provides to Canby for the center, how much costs would increase. #canby
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    Hudson: Just because we can allow parents to not have parent involvement does not mean we should. #canby
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    A student: A teacher told me that in a perfect world, teenagers do not have sex. But we do not live in a perfect world. #canby
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    Student talks about how his mother, who got pregnant at 18, struggled with providing for family.#canby
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    A resident: “A high school has enough to do than think it’s their responsibility” to have birth control available. #canby
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    Resident Jacqueline Muir: Dispensing of birth control gives teens the wrong message; feels it condones initiation of sex. #canby
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    Resident Mac Wood saying he doesn’t want tax dollars going “into pushing nonsense.” #canby
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    Resident Sean Avery says earlier board said they’d add the center w/o birth control services, and they should keep that commitment. #canby
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    Avery also says that low turnout for student survey shows that students are ambivalent or don't care about birth control issue. #canby
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    Resident Raymond Baldwin says he is worried that schools are moving in this “progressive” manner, says it violates parental rights. #canby
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    Baldwin: “Who’s going to be responsible for these children if they have medical complications?” #canby
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    Another resident is saying the board is making the a big decision with “flawed and scanty information,” singles out survey. #canby
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    Peter Schultz, student who helped propose the plan, says ultimately it's parent’s decision in what goes on in a child’s life. #canby
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    Schultz: "Would you rather pay for birth control supplies now or would you like to pay for welfare later?" #canby
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    Teen Shelby Bennett says that approving plan would be seen as “encouraging sex,” urges young people in the room to "stay pure." #canby
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