Girls and Reproductive Rights

Very recently, a judge ruled that over the counter emergency contraception should be made available to customers 17 and older (the age requirement was previously 18). Not a month later, a teenager in Fairfax, VA received a two week suspension and a recommendation for expulsion when she was seen taking her daily birth control pill during lunchtime. These are not unrelated stories in the contemporary context of reproductive rights discourses, and specific to this blog, as they are related to questions of girls' rights. Both instances raise concerns about girls' bodies and to what extent they are capable of making decisions regarding their individual bodies - especially as those decisions affect the capacity for reproduction (which is certainly highly classed and racialized - although the Fairfax teen's identity was not revealed, is it not fair to ask the question, "Would a black or Latina teenager have been condemned similarly for essentially preventing a possible pregnancy?"). Now, it seems that all instances of students popping pills, be they aspirin or Ecstasy tabs, are grounds for punishment, but the significant element in the case of a female student taking birth control pills is that this medication is related to reproduction and (hetero)sexualized, warranted or not. Interestingly, the Washington Post reports that the suspended teen spent her time away from school poring over the Student Responsibilities and Rights handbook that indicated her fate. Her close reading indicated the following:

"If she had been caught high on LSD, heroin or another illegal drug, she found, she would have been suspended for five days. Taking her prescribed birth-control pill on campus drew the same punishment as bringing a gun to school would have."

Indeed, is birth control - in the broadest sense - akin to gun control? Is emergency contraception in the hands of a 17 year old somehow reminiscent of Columbine? I have a bit more confidence in girls than these strange discursive relationships indicate we should/might. What are reproductive rights to girls (in the U.S., at least), and who knows "best" in terms of upholding those rights?