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Seventh Grader Sues School Over Right to Wear Pro-Life T-Shirt
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Posted on 07/06/2009 1:58:19 PM PDT by jakerobins

A California mom says her public school administrators violated her daughter's First Amendment rights when they ordered the seventh-grader to take off her pro-life T-shirt.

Anna Amador has gone to court on behalf of her daughter, who she says was ordered by her principal to change her shirt on "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day." The shirt the girl was wearing displays two graphic pictures of a fetus growing in the womb.

The incident occurred in April 2008 at McSwain Elementary School, a K-8 school in Merced, Calif. Amador alleges in her legal complaint that school Principal Terrie Rohrer, Assistant Principal C.W. Smith and office clerk Martha Hernandez mistreated her daughter and denied the girl her First Amendment rights when they ordered her to leave the cafeteria and change her shirt.

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Sadly in Gov't schools rights don't mean much anymore. However I wonder if this was a pro choice or obama t-shirt and a teacher made her change it.....Why do I even ask anymore??
1 posted on 07/06/2009 1:58:19 PM PDT by jakerobins
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by the time it gets to this point...we've crested the slippery slope.

Wheee!

2 posted on 07/06/2009 2:00:15 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: jakerobins

Exactly...there are rules for thee, and rules for me.


3 posted on 07/06/2009 2:00:38 PM PDT by kjo
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What is “graphic” about “fetuses” growing in the womb?

They look like babies... is that “graphic”?

(I understand the discomfort on the part of leftists.)


4 posted on 07/06/2009 2:02:24 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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5 posted on 07/06/2009 2:03:28 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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