[friendly]

Over the counter Advil (ibuprofen) is used to treat (among other things) headaches and uterine cramping. This is also a woman's issue.

Liberals are absolutely amazing. This same girl could also go and get RU-486 from Planned Parenthood without her families knowledge, encouraged by this same school!

[P-Marlowe]

Indeed, if she were caught with birth control pills, the school could have done nothing about it because of her so called constitutional right to privacy. Well if there is such a right it clearly extends to having the right to posess a legal nonprescription substance that can relieve the symptoms of not being pregnant.

Now since herbs like green tea have medicinal effects, could she have been expelled for brewing up a cup of tea to help the headache she would have gotten from having to live among these idiot school teachers and administrators?

[OneTimeLurker]

Why do you bring up Liberals? I don't think you can assume a political pursuasion of the school board. Moreover, it sounds like a state law issue.

Regardless, this is absolute stupidity. These stories come up once every few months it seems.

[optik_b]

"Liberals are absolutely amazing. This same girl could also go and get RU-486 from Planned Parenthood without her families knowledge, encouraged by this same school!"

How does expelling kids for having an Advil have anything to do with providing contraception or birth control?

FWIW Louisiana is one of many states that have parental consent laws on the books requiring parental consent or notification so your statement is false.

[jimstoic]

Funny, a friend just sent me an email about this very story. His assumption was that the decision makers were FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS, because he felt such people would take the letter of the law literally. I doubt that the school and school district administrators, school board, and legislators and others responsible for the law could be accurately grouped as either liberal or conservative, Christian or otherwise.