What's absurd about it...any girl old enough to get pregnant should have some say over their health care.
The absurdity is the nurse believing she had some "right", "duty", what ever you want to call it to have this girl submit to a pregnancy test.
What if she is 11?
1. She wasn't seeking healthcare.
2. 4th Amendment violation (as stated).
3. Children are not able to sign into agreements. One must be 18 years old.
4. Clear HIPPA violation (Federal health privacy law). Big Time.
Nurse may lose her license.
The manner in which the alledged health care was provided for one thing .You do not order a 15 year old into the nurses office & based only on third ,fourth Or maybe fifth person heresay demand that the 15 year old take a pregnancy test.
It is a violation of good practice standards at the least . Also the law that the school principle cited would not apply for two very serious reasons the medical treatment (pregnancy test)was administered by a nurse NOT a physician & secondly the medical treatment would only be allowed if the girl was pregant in the first place which she wasn't.
No prior diagnosis of pregnancy no legal right to perform health care without parental consent. Also the violations of standards of practice in the giving of the pregnancy test under coercion could be construed as assualt in court.
any girl old enough to get pregnant should have some say over their health care.
EXCEPT in the case of abortions.