By Cate Nelson •
April 8, 2009
Zero Tolerance policies often include everything under the sun: prescriptions, over-the-counters, and of course the illegal junk.
But when a Fairfax County, Virginia mom got word that her daughter would receive a two-week suspension for the birth control pill, she was shocked,
I realize my daughter broke a rule. The punishment does not fit the crime.
I’ll say. Whether or not you believe in teens and birth control, it was a decision the girl made with her mom. And because she responsibly remembered to take the hormone on her lunch break, the Zero Tolerance Policy mandated she be punished.
Now the teen is even facing expulsion. WTF?!
By Cate Nelson •
March 20, 2009
Let me start this off by saying I don’t want to have a big ol’ controversy here. But when I open my big fat mouth laptop, sometimes it’s inevitable.
Looks like the crashing economy is “good” for a sector besides pawn shops: the family planning clinics.
Maybe it’s because we’re all jobless; we’re all at home with nothing better to do. Maybe it’s because our unemployed butts have no health insurance. Maybe it’s because we have to make a monthly choice between groceries and contraception. Or a perfect storm of the three.
Whatever it is, for one Planned Parenthood clinic, January was the biggest month for abortions.
We’ve seen some people who said that they didn’t really think that they would ever be making this decision, but recognize that this is a time when they have to think about taking care of the families that they have.
Zero Tolerance policies often include everything under the sun: prescriptions, over-the-counters, and of course the illegal junk.
