News Sources: Offering Birth Control to Sixth-Graders

Portland, Maine, school officials are about to consider a proposal that would enable students at King Middle School to obtain birth control prescriptions from the school's health center. King would become the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to students in grades 6 through 8. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Lyn Mikel Brown - Associate Professor of Education and Human Development and Women's Studies, Colby College - Brown is a founding member of the Harvard Project on Women's and Girls' Development, and the co-author of Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development. She is an advisory board member for the Fox Family Networks' Boyz Channel and Girlz Channel, and a member of the American Psychological Association's Presidential Task Force on Adolescent Girls.

Frank Kirkpatrick - Professor of Religion, Trinity College - An exceptionally articulate speaker on morality, ethics and community issues, Kirkpatrick co-authored the book Living Issues in Ethics, which examines recurring social, economic and political themes in life and news. Kirkpatrick has spoken in the media on such topics as sexuality, business ethics, environmental issues, school prayer, political correctness, political campaigns and foreign policy.

Betsy Hartmann - Director of the Population and Development Program, Hampshire College - Hartmann is the author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control. She writes and lectures frequently on population and development issues, both in U.S. and globally and is a long-standing member of the international women's health movement.