Posted on 07/02/2007 4:32:58 PM PDT by wagglebee
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A teenager in the UK is facing threats from her school for wearing a t-shirt that has a message opposing abortion. Sarah Scott, a 16 year-old who gave birth just four months ago, says the staff at Banff Academy complained when she wore a shirt with the message "Abortion is Murder” printed on it.
Scott attends the Aberdeenshire, Scotland school and wore the shirt on a day when students are permitted to wear casual clothes instead of their normal uniforms.
While the school maintains the shirt was offensive and threatened to kick her out if she wore it again, Scott says other shirts are more offensive.
She pointed to shirts worn by students promoting pornography or lewd magazines.
“I was wearing the T-shirt when a teacher approached me and that I was never to wear it again because she found it offensive. I was told I could be excluded from school if I wear it again," she told the BBC about what happened.
Scott talked about why she wore the shirt, saying the recent birth of her son solidified her pro-life views.
“I was not just wearing the T-shirt for the shock factor -- it is something I am passionate about; it is wrong to kill a baby," she explained.
"I feel I am the one being targeted because I am anti-abortionist. It's not fair because other people get to air their views -- wearing a crucifix, for example, as a sign of religion," she told the BBC.
Responding to the situation, an Aberdeenshire Council spokesman told the BBC: "It was felt the statement on the T-shirt was inappropriate in a school setting and had the potential to cause offense."
Kids shouldn’t be wearing t-shirts with political messages to school—no matter what the message. It’s disruptive and takes kids’ attention off of what they’re supposed to be in school for. Plus it gets the adults all riled.
Call me cranky but it’s just my opinion.
My children have seen a lot of snoobage over the years ... and they associate it with babies.
"Keep your rosaries off my ovaries"
“My oldest son, who was about 6 at the time, nudged his brother and said, “Look, Tom! That lady’s getting ready to feed her baby!”
ROTFL, if it wasn’t so sad.
Jesus is pleased with her.
And then they wonder why the sex offenders prey.
Doesn’t take much to disrupt a thought, a smile, a wink, whatever. At least it was thought provoking and true.
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Good training!! :p
In the USA she would have been arrested and taken out in handcuffs. Which country is further along on the road to fascism?
Good Move! She’s very brave for standing up for the unborn when so many are against them. I bet any amount of cash, that if the T-shirt read, “Pro-Choice, and Proud”, they wouldn’t have said a word.
You Go Girl!
Patricia
I appreciate her being pro-life. But she is still a ho-bag.
She may have been raped. You shouldn't make the judgement about her morals since we don't know anything about how she was impregnated
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