Shh. You might teach the children something they'd otherwise never learn in school. Truth.
Seventh Grader Sues School Over Right to Wear 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.
"Before Plaintiff could eat [breakfast] she was ordered by a school staff member to throw her food out and report immediately to Defendant Smith's office, located in the main office of McSwain Elementary School," the complaint reads.
"Upon arriving at the main office, Defendant Hernandez, intentionally and without Plaintiff's consent, grabbed Plaintiff's arm and forcibly escorted her toward Smith's office, at all times maintaining a vice-like grip on Plaintiff's arm. Hernandez only released Plaintiff's arm after physically locating her in front of Smith and Defendant Rohrer...
"Smith and Rohrer ordered Plaintiff to remove her pro-life T-shirt and instructed Plaintiff to never wear her pro-life T-shirt at McSwain Elementary School ever again...
"Completely humiliated and held out for ridicule, Plaintiff complied with Defendants' directives and removed her pro-life T-shirt, whereupon, Defendants seized and confiscated it. Defendants did not return Plaintiff's property until the end of the school day."
Two graphic pictures? I'd counter those are two images direct from Life Magazine's spread on ... Life. But we all know the real reason they don't want the girl wearing that shirt: The other kids in the elementary school might learn a thing or two about the truth of that "unviable mass of tissue" and realize what abortion really is, and what it really does. The fight will go on to the Supreme Court, but the school has technically won, for now. They got what they wanted - the girl humiliated & the shirt temporarily banned. By the time this hits the high court, she won't even be a student there any longer.
Kudos to the student and her mom for standing and fighting for their rights - and the rights of all of us. If I could, I'd reward them with one of those incredibly relaxing Orlando vacations for fighting the good fight.
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