For the first six weeks, students will be staying with local home-schooling families. The college does not plan to accept any federal funding. The proposal still has to go through a second reading in the Senate before going into effect. The proposal passed with a large majority. The pill, called Norlevo, is taken within 72 hours after intercourse and prevents pregnancy by blocking the implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus.
Opponents claim it amounts to abortion.
Proponents of the morning-after pill are confident that the National Assembly will amend the law to allow school nurses to give out the pill. About 10,000 minors become pregnant each year in France. The group also proposed a flat tax for states to collect revenue from Web sales. The report urged lawmakers not to force the Internet to change the way it operates, to address concerns such as pornography and gambling. Such prevention should focus on laws and enforcement that target individual responsibility, according to one of the authors of the report.