WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new poll indicates most people are in favor of letting public schools provide birth control to students.

Sixty-seven percent of those questioned in the Associated Press-Ipsos poll support giving out contraceptives. Most think birth control does reduce the number of teen pregnancies. More than a-third would limit the distribution to students who have parental consent, but nearly as many favor providing birth control to all who ask.

The survey was conducted late last month after a school board in Portland, Maine, voted to let a health center at a middle school provide students with full contraceptive services. The school's students are sixth through eighth-graders, and do not have to tell their parents about services they receive.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention less than one percent of middle schools and nearly five percent of high schools make condoms available to students.