More on middle school contraception program

Portland Bishop Richard Malone says King Middle School's decision to provide contraception for sexually active students as young as 11 years old:

". . . communicates to young people that adults have given up on forming young people in virtues like chastity. It promotes a purely pragmatic response to the moral problem of sexual activity in young people."

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"I believe that it is possible for children and young people to make wise moral choices given caring guidance. They also need to know that when they might fail, adults will stand by them and not abandon them," Bishop Malone said. "Everything about this decision gives kids the wrong message."