This power given the school nurse or doctor was rolled into the common consent form, which could be easily signed by parents, who over run with permission slips/forms at the onset of school, did/would not realize this dispersion of birth control was inserted under patient/school/doctor confidentiality. It became "bundled"..
I am told by a teacher of a incident where a young teen girl and Maine student has asked for this form of protection after her irritability, unable to consentrate on classes at her school was traced to her mother's boyfriend being sexually agressive, and she was worried about getting pregnant. She was not aware it takes 30 days to build up the desired protection needed and expressed anxiety. Her comment was he "would not wait". She was not seeking his advances. She was given directly to the School's doctor who is on campus several days a week. Now is all protected doctor/ patient information. Whether it was reported to authorities, I have no idea.
I thought that if the school or any medical professional was aware of any kind of abuse of a child, they were required BY LAW to report it to the authorities.
This nonsense of them putting her on the Pill and keeping *medical* confidence is the biggest load of crap. I don’t doubt what you’re telling me, but in that case, I’d say that by putting her on the Pill, they become complicate in the abuse.
Do they really think that the mother should not know about the abuse of her daughter by her boyfriend? What’s wrong with these people?!?!?!
IIRC from previous articles on this issue in Maine, very few of the middle schools actually have these clinics, and presumably those schools are the ones filled to the rafters with kids from the sort of home the girl you described came from. If she didn’t have access to contraceptive pills at school, she’d just get pregnant and mom’s boyfriend would haul her off to some back alley abortionist and start over again. At least if the girl is discussing her desire for the pill with a school nurse of doctor who she trusts not to be in league with mom and mom’s boyfriend, there’s a chance she’ll get the sort of urgent intervention she really needs.