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Two students seeking to start school pro-life clubs in Fargo, North Dakota, are claiming they are victims of unconstitutional discrimination from officials opposed to their cause.According to a complaint letter sent by the Thomas More Society (TMS), a public interest law firm assisting the students, Brigid O’Keefe of Fargo North High School and Katie McPherson of Fargo Davies High School have each spent months attempting to establish pro-life clubs at their schools, to no avail. McPherson first applied to found a club in September 2014, while O’Keefe applied last February. Both had their applications declined, with O’Keefe saying she and other potential club members were...

Andrew Guernsey, a freshman at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, anticipated some push-back when he sought to resurrect the school’s pro-life organization. He didn’t expect the group would be denied official club status. The university’s Student Government Association rejected the club’s application March 12, citing concerns about harassment and the use of graphic images. The group, Voice for Life, is awaiting an April 9 trial hearing before the Student Government Associations’ Judiciary Committee. “I expected people maybe not to approve, but at the same time being able to separate their personal views from being able to tolerate differences of...

ITHACA NY--Following a thirty-three percent cut in its funding, the Cornell Coalition for Life was prevented from bringing pro-life activict Norma McCorvey to speak at Cornell, the Cornell Daily Sun reports. McCorvey is better known as Jane Roe, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that created the right to abortion. In 1995, she converted to evangelical Christianity and founded an anti-abortion organization called Roe No More. McCorvey was scheduled to speak on campus, and the event was confirmed last year, the article says. However the University's Student Assembly Finance Committee cut the group's budget last...