School Nurses in Canada Now Prescribe Birth Control

(Montreal) In an effort to reduce an increasing teen pregnancy and abortion rate, the college of physicians in Quebec now authorize school nurses to prescribe birth control pills and to counsel students without waiting for the teen to ask. There's no requirement to see a doctor nor is there any parental notification.

Holy moly! I don't know which system is screwier, the Canadian, where there seems to be no control, or the American, where a student can't get an aspirin in school without the written approvals of a parent and the family doctor. Also, why wouldn't the next "progressive" step for the Canadians be to have the school nurses start prescribing medical marijuana?