School Forces Pregnancy Tests on Girls, Kicks out Students Who Refuse or are Pregnant

[proud2BlibKansan]

In a Louisiana public school, female students who are suspected of being pregnant are told that they must take a pregnancy test. Under school policy, those who are pregnant or refuse to take the test are kicked out and forced to undergo home schooling.

Welcome to Delhi Charter School, in Delhi, Louisiana, a school of 600 students that does not believe its female students have a right to education free from discrimination. According to its Student Pregnancy Policy, the school has a right to not only force testing upon girls, but to send them to a physician of the school administration’s choice. A positive test result, or failure to take the test at all, means administrators can forbid a girl from taking classes and force her to pursue a course of home study if she wishes to continue her education with the school.

This is in blatant violation of federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

Today, the ACLU of Louisiana and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project asked Delhi Charter School to immediately suspend this discriminatory and illegal policy.

more . . . http://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom-womens-rights/get-tested-or-get-out-school-forces-pregnancy-tests-girls

[Posteritatis]

1. On what planet is that even slightly legal? Gah. (nt)

[vaberella]

31. It did say Lousiana. I've come to accept that these states are planets unto themselves. n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

2. Criminee!

That's WORSE than when I was in school when a pregnant student was expelled ('course the daddy was never expelled along with her).

What is it with these fundies and their obsession about women's reproductive organs?

And deny her an education forcing her to take county/state/federal aid at which point they'd be whining about her being a welfare queen.

I swear to goddess too much of this country has lost it's fucking mind.

[freshwest]

3. Last time this happened was half a century ago. Time wasted. Fricking time warp.

[freshwest]

4. BTW, same ones that do this whine about someone touching their junk at the airport. Get real!

[blackspade]

18. I'm not fond at all of the TSA fondling.

And I find the forced pregnancy testing repugnant.

So how does that fit?

Drug testing, TSA 'security', forced pregnancy, random police searches...They are all violations of our basic rights.
There is no reason to pick and choose.

[MADem]

5. WTF? Ahhh, CHARTER schools! Leave your civil liberties at the door, kiddies! nt

[Starry Messenger]

6. Next it will be back to the laundries.

Schools there are teaching that men rode dinosaurs, and girls have to make haste into exile lest they contaminate with their sin.

[jwirr]

7. That certainly defeats the purpose of education. Welfare line here we come.

[Egalitarian Thug]

20. Except that Clinton eliminated that escape route. n/t

[Kalidurga]

8. They did this in the 80's where I went to school.

Except they didn't force anyone to take a pregnancy test. But, if a girl was obviously pregnant they would make her go to an alternative school. They didn't want her giving the other girls the idea that unwed sex was ok.

[LiberalFighter]

9. The state is at fault too for even allowing this.

[AsahinaKimi]

16. Bobby Jindal's state...

figures, ne?

[TrogL]

10. Wtf is a public charter school

I thought that was a contradiction in terms

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. It's a school funded with tax dollars

that gets to write its own charter and rules. Charters aren't obligated to follow all of the state regulations a traditional public school does.

[Justice wanted]

11. First of all isn't this somehow illegal! Second of all are we slipping into some sort of Handmaid's

tale?

They are really trying to do what they can to destroy education and keep future generations dumb.

I can't believe this is the U.S.A.

[Zalatix]

15. I was thinking the same thing. This is the stuff that rebellions are made of.

[Egalitarian Thug]

21. No we're not slipping at all,

we're racing like a snowball in an avalanche and everybody's too busy to notice.

[Justice wanted]

32. I'll give you that one.

[bluedigger]

12. Next year - menstrual huts!

(It kills me that I have to add this...)

[Egalitarian Thug]

22. In a world where the OP is not from The Onion every absurdity has to be labeled. n/t

[sakabatou]

13. O.o?!

[Zalatix]

14. At what point do citizens get pissed off and physically close down schools like this?

[Egalitarian Thug]

23. The citizens of the these shit-holes like this stuff. n/t

[Mister Ed]

19. Must've gotten pregnant by themselves.

The article seems to make no mention of an effort to find or expel any boys involved. Not that it would be okay to do that either. But the fact that they don't is quite telling.

[coalition_unwilling]

24. Institutional misogeny. Only in WTF-istan - n/t

[tanyev]

25. Let me guess--they would also be kicked out for using contraception or having an abortion.

[99Forever]

26. Why isn't the ACLU on this?

WTF? They can find the time to defend that fat slimebucket Limpballs but they aren't all over this?

[barbtries]

33. from the OP:

Today, the ACLU of Louisiana and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project asked Delhi Charter School to immediately suspend this discriminatory and illegal policy.

[99Forever]

35. Good.

Missed that. Life gets busy sometimes. Thanks.

[Posteritatis]

34. The first I heard of this was yesterday in an ACLU release, but please, continue kneejerking. (nt)

[Robb]

27. Looks like an easy Title IX case.

[get the red out]

28. Oh wonderful

Girls who get pregnant are treated like criminals, but I'm sure the boys who get them pregnant are just being boys? Not to mention a total violation of these young women's rights, and the rights of their parents to oversee their children's medical care and testing.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

29. What about the fathers?

Or is it just immaculate conceptions that upset them?

[gollygee]

30. The war on women is also the war on teenage girls

Let's take away their ability to graduate from high school so they have no way to support their new baby! That's a good idea! /sarcasm