I can’t believe this is actually happening in the state where I was born and raised.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening.

The plan, offered by city health officials, makes King Middle School the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to students in grades 6 through 8, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

I have a sixth-grade granddaughter, and I can tell you (if you don’t already know) she is by no means capable of understanding what sex is all about and is nowhere near ready for sex.

A supporter, Richard Verrier, said it’s not enough to depend on parents to protect their children because there may be students who can’t discuss things with their parents.

Condoms have been available since 2002 to King students who have parental permission to be treated at its student health center.

About one-fourth of student health centers that serve at least one grade of adolescents 11 and older dispense some form of contraception, said Mohan, whose Washington-based organization represents more than 1,700 school-based centers nationwide.

At King Middle School, birth control prescriptions will be given after a student undergoes a physical exam by a physician or nurse practitioner, said Lisa Belanger, who oversees Portland’s student health centers.

Students treated at the centers must first get written parental permission, but under state law such treatment is confidential, and students decide for themselves whether to tell their parents about the services they receive.

I’m sure because if they told their parents they wouldn’t get the pill.

Then again Maine has become a liberal bastion and is not the same state it was when I was a child and young adult.

I blame a lot of this on the people from surrounding states such as Massachusetts and Connecticut who have moved to Maine and taken over the politics there.

At least I hope there are still some native Mainers with common sense. I’m not so sure anymore.

They keep electing a democrat governor and legislature that is taxing them out of their homes practically, so what do I know?

I do know this is wrong and is something the parents should handle at home.