by Alison Stewart

Last week we reported on a local Maine school board that voted 7-2 to allow a Portland middle school health clinic to provide birth control.

This week the board will consider limiting access to pills and patches. Board members will consider this option on Nov. 7. — if they all make it. Three of the board members who voted for the original birth control option may face a recall.

Providing contraception has been the norm for the past two years at Elsie Allen High School in
Santa Rosa, Calif.. What started as pilot program in 2005 is still in place today at the school's health center. When contacted by the BPP, the center's CEO Naomi Fuchs responded, "The Elsie Allen Health Center continues to provide reproductive health services, including contraception, to students at the Elsie Allen Health Center. The Health Center is a full-scope, primary care clinic for adolescents."