Louisiana School Forces Students to Take Pregnancy Tests, Kicks Out Girls Who Refuse Or Test Positive
Tara Culp- Ressler, News Report: “One Louisiana school is dealing with the state’s high rates of teen pregnancy by taking an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach. No pregnant students are welcome at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana — a policy that the institution enforces by requiring students who are ‘suspected’ of being pregnant to submit to a mandatory pregnancy test.”
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The American Civil Liberties Union points out that Dehli Charter School’s discriminatory policy for pregnant students is “in blatant violation of federal law and the U.S. Constitution.” On Monday, the ACLU of Louisiana and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project sent a letter to the school asking it to suspend its policy, on the grounds that New Delhi Charter School’s unfair treatment of its pregnant students violates the following laws:
•Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, for excluding students from educational programs based on sex.
•The Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, for treating female students differently than their male peers, as well as stereotyping “suspected” pregnant studies on the basis of their gender.
•The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that recognizes the right to procreate as well as the right to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy, for targeting students in a way that appears to stigmatize pregnancy.
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http://www.nationofchange.org/louisiana-school-forces-students-take-pregnancy-tests-kicks-out-girls-who-refuse-or-test-positive-13
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