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About two thirds of U.S. adults support the in-school provision of contraception to students, either with the consent of their parents (37%) or without (30%), according to a recent Associated Press poll. Random telephone interviews of 1004 adults were conducted in response to a news story about a Maine middle school providing contraception to students.
The respondents were split on whether in-school contraceptive access would encourage students to have intercourse earlier (46%) or not (49%), but most (62%) felt such access would reduce the number of teen pregnancies. Slightly more than half felt that emphasizing sex education and birth control was the preferable way to reduce teen pregnancies, while 46% felt that “emphasizing morality and ab…