Student sues principal for censorship

[didymus]

Here’s something from our local news.

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** Student sues principal for censorship**
Eighth- grader protesting abortion claims freedom of speech was violated
By MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON, Staff writer
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First published: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 ALBANY – A 13-year-old Gowana Middle School eighth-grader is suing his principal, claiming her censorship of his free-speech right to protest abortion in October was discriminatory and humiliating.The student, identified in documents as M.G., seeks a jury trial and permission to wage another silent protest and leaflet campaign on Jan. 22.
That’s the anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision that affirmed a woman’s right to an abortion.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court last week by the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal group based in Scottsdale, Ariz.
“The First Amendment does not permit school officials to ‘pick and choose’ which speech is allowable and which is not,” said ADF-allied attorney Tom Marcelle of Albany, who is co-counsel in the case. “If 13-year-olds are old enough to participate in sexual education courses, they are certainly old enough to talk about issues such as abortion.”

 

[renee1258]

“If 13-year-olds are old enough to participate in sexual education courses, they are certainly old enough to talk about issues such as abortion.”

I had sex education up to my ears in public school, never once did they talk about fetal development or the hormonal changes regarding pregnancy. When I think about it, they didn’t say a thing about being pregnant unless it was avoiding getting pregnant. Nevermind the emotional bonding during sexual activity or handling a broken heart after having sex…

and you wonder why so many teenagers expecially girls are depressed.

 

[Karin]

“If 13-year-olds are old enough to participate in sexual education courses, they are certainly old enough to talk about issues such as abortion.”

Good for this young person…I hope they win!

When one of the teens explained that the First Amendment allows the expression of personal views, provided they are not disruptive, “Principal Bush was unpersuaded,” documents said. Rather, she replied, "students shouldn’t be thinking about issues like that at your age."

then they should not be teaching kids that age about sex & brith control …if they are old enough for that then they are old enough to protest (silently) against the holocaust of abortion!

 

[puzzleannie]

my children were of course brought up with a strong moral teaching, including Catholic view on sex, family, marriage, contraception and abortion. But for at least 3 of them who have shared this with me, the thing that really cemented in their minds the pro-life attitude was a trip taken by each of them in turn, with their school classes, to a local health science museum.

There is and has been for many years an exhibit using ultrasound and in utero photographs of actual stages of fetal development, as part of the description of the healthy growth of the child from conception to birth. It also has a description of the functions and organs that are present and detectable at each stage (and what damage results in the infant if development is compromised at each stage by infection, injury etc.). From this exhibit, mounted by secular scientists from a secular university, obviously at a time when science was still science and not an exercise in political correctness, they all, and I am sure they classmates, came away with a view of the fetus as a person. When science does what it is supposed to do it is the greatest ally we have in defending life.

 

[skuld]

Sue-happy, anyone?