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Parents Launch Lawsuit after Disabled 15-year-old Secretly Given Morning After Pill
WORLAND, Wyoming, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents of a 15-year-old disabled girl filed a lawsuit against the state after learning that staff at her school had procured the morning-after-pill for her without their consent.
Without notifying the girl’s parents, a school counsellor and principal brought the girl to the county health department where she was given the so-called emergency contraceptive Plan B abortifacient. The girl told school counsellors last April that she had sex with a 23-year-old. The parents question why the school never filed criminal charges against the man for preying on a disabled minor.
The parent’s suit holds the county’s School District No. 1, the state, and the county accountable for causing their family emotional upset, and for violating their parental rights.
“Even assuming all allegations in the complaint to be true, the plaintiffs cannot establish a claim for negligence,” attorneys for the state claimed, according to a billingsgazette.com report. They argue that because the girl never took the pill, no bodily injury ever occurred. They asked the judge to dismiss the case Wednesday.
The county and school denied responsibility earlier in the proceedings.
See local coverage: billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/24/build/wyoming/38-morningafterpill.inc
WORLAND, Wyoming, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Parents of a 15-year-old disabled girl filed a lawsuit against the state after learning that staff at her school had procured the morning-after-pill for her without their consent.
Without notifying the girl’s parents, a school counsellor and principal brought the girl to the county health department where she was given the so-called emergency contraceptive Plan B abortifacient. The girl told school counsellors last April that she had sex with a 23-year-old. The parents question why the school never filed criminal charges against the man for preying on a disabled minor.
The parent’s suit holds the county’s School District No. 1, the state, and the county accountable for causing their family emotional upset, and for violating their parental rights.
“Even assuming all allegations in the complaint to be true, the plaintiffs cannot establish a claim for negligence,” attorneys for the state claimed, according to a billingsgazette.com report. They argue that because the girl never took the pill, no bodily injury ever occurred. They asked the judge to dismiss the case Wednesday.
The county and school denied responsibility earlier in the proceedings.
See local coverage: billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/02/24/build/wyoming/38-morningafterpill.inc