Colbert's War On Birth Control (VIDEO)

According to the Fairfax County School Board there is no difference between heroin and the pill. This is why Freesia Jackson, a 17-year-old student in Virginia, was suspended for two weeks for taking her birth control pill at lunch. Freesia seems like the perfect teen: A straight A student who excels at varsity sports, but, luckily for us, Stephen Colbert exposed her for the junkie that she is last night.


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[captainindustry]

07:30 PM on 08/05/2009

These harsh and draconian rules were not written with this beautiful student-athlete in mind.

There are other kids in the public school system. Some of them have serious problems. Some of them are easily influenced by their peers, and their peers are CONSTANTLY trying to get them hooked.

Zero Tolerence Zones weren't put in place on a whim. NO DRUGS ON CAMPUS!!! What's so hard to understand about that? Or maybe you'd like NO DRUGS ON CAMPUS!!! Except for the pretty little honor students who get special priviliges because, welllll you know...

She's not that good a diver, BTW.

[Vote2bfree]

06:26 PM on 08/05/2009

Swimmers take birth control pills to reculate their periods so they can control when they have them and they do not interfer with meets. This young lady is not the first I have heard of being on the pill and being a swimmer. Yeah, she may very well use it for the purpose it was invented to stop other little swimmers...but...it's her and her mother's business and not the schools.

[cuppajava]

02:07 PM on 08/05/2009

The girl is a swimmer. She's a diver. She LETTERED in those sports. To be that good in those sports, she probably practices daily and competes frequently.

Her mom supports the use of birth control, apparently.

It's just so freaking obvious that she utilizes birth control pills to add some measure of control over her intensive swim practices and her swimming/diving competitions.

[Poorsarah]

03:11 AM on 08/05/2009

Gee, I better go hide my Bayer aspirin!!!

[northendtreker]

03:02 PM on 08/05/2009

Just say no.

[DrMJG]

03:30 PM on 08/05/2009

In some school districts, you can be suspended for having Bayer Asprin on you!

[tb92]

02:58 AM on 08/05/2009

What a great kid. Her Mom has every reason to be proud of her.

[scarletxoxoxo]

02:05 AM on 08/05/2009

Hot!

[northendtreker]

03:03 PM on 08/05/2009

And she know it.

[Callyson]

11:54 PM on 08/04/2009

What is the Fairfax Country School District taking, anyway? Or maybe the problem is they are not taking their meds? Ridiculous--but Colbert is genius at showing how silly this whole thing is.

[wndrwrthg]

08:45 PM on 08/04/2009

The zero intelligence policies that are instituted by school districts across the country only serve to mark them as fools. The one drug fits all is only a dodge so they do not have to accept responsibility and do their jobs. Each case should be adjudicated by the facts and not hysteria, the same applies to drug testing.

[doublehelix68]

07:13 PM on 08/04/2009

Is that particular school going to suspend diabetics when they dose up too?

[Pippy67]

10:49 PM on 08/04/2009

That's just what I was thinking. Birth control and insulin are both hormones.

[JazzyJim]

05:55 PM on 08/05/2009

We need an expert here. Can someone get Drug Czar Rush Limbaugh on the phone? Stat!

[indy100]

06:35 PM on 08/05/2009

Probably. After all they are "hooked" and therefore junkies..........

[Bluejay00234]

06:56 PM on 08/04/2009

If only more teens had parents like hers, maybe we wouldn't have babies having babies at an alarming rate.

[Durango]

07:10 PM on 08/04/2009

And wouldn't need as many abortions either.

[RachelMc]

02:45 AM on 08/05/2009

u need to go look at the stats at cdc... if they are actually keeping the child then that means that cant be getting an abortions also. the teen birth rate is higher and is growing. that means the numbers that are giving birth is higher. but anyways...

[RevBookburn]

06:06 PM on 08/04/2009

The people on that school board probably make it with their own relatives and sheep.

[Durango]

07:16 PM on 08/04/2009

Was this in South Carolina?

Does it involve school board members and horses?

[JohnDylan]

05:45 PM on 08/04/2009

The U.S. drug parinoia is going way to far. Yesterday FOX spoke about Amsterdam as if we are run by mob gangsters because we legalised softdrugs and prostitution. Then let me ask you the following: How come less people in Amsterdam have tried drugs (22% in Amsterdam against 40% in the U.S.A.), how come less people in Holland are in jail, how come less people in Amsterdam are murderded each year (only 18 in the whole of Holland a country of 16 miljoen people)? HOW COME? FOX you have a guy calling a aspect of his program 'Reality Check' well please visit Amsterdam and you can see that it's way safer then any city in the U.S., please visit Amsterdam and you will see that legalising drugs and prostitution will make your country only safer because the country can control the use of drugs by taxing it and FOX, just shut up!

[Hopster1]

10:48 AM on 08/05/2009

I wholeheartedly agree. I've been to Amsterdam for the World Cup and an Art show and there is not a drug problem there. Tax and regulation of soft drugs and prostitution have only helped to CONTROL those vices and NOT embellish them as some Conservatives would like you to think.

[Annieke]

10:55 AM on 08/05/2009

Typically Fox. For them The Netherlands is the modern Sodom and Gomorra.

Meanwhile they forget to mention that we (I am Dutch as well) have less abortions than the US (relatively speaking), less teen pregnancies and indeed, less drug-related crimes and less people dying from an OD.

Never seen their program on Dutch euthanasia? Like it never happens in the US...right.

[CaliGrown78]

04:54 PM on 08/04/2009

That ish was hilarious!

[ricmarc]

04:22 PM on 08/04/2009

let us not forget some of the men on the supreme court think it is okay to strip search a girl for a motrin that doesn't exist!

[BearsLeft]

06:37 PM on 08/04/2009

They just want to be called ahead of time so they can watch.

[Danyelle79]

06:44 PM on 08/04/2009

lol

[Deni]

06:43 PM on 08/04/2009

A 13-year-old girl!!! If memory serves, Clarence Thomas was the ONLY judge that was fine with that. I think that decision was 8-1. Big surprise there, huh?

[ricmarc]

04:19 PM on 08/04/2009

i knew girls in high school that were on the pill. all of them for problems with their periods. and that is in the 70's! they were NOT sexually active.

[pittmom]

07:24 PM on 08/04/2009

Sexual behavior is irrelevant in this case. The pill is used to manage periods and keeps women from having unwanted children (although you still have to talk to your teenagers about STDs). I think the school board is wrong here, but wonder why this young lady thought lunch was a good time to take the pill. Couldn't she have taken it outside of school?

[techjockey]

02:15 AM on 08/05/2009

You have to take it at the same time every day, so lunchtime was probably the the time she remembered the best.

[TLV]

09:58 AM on 08/05/2009

If it bothers her stomach, taking it with food is better.