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The mother of a 6th grade girl who was not allowed to wear a pro-life T-shirt at her public school in Merced, California filed a federal lawsuit this week against the school, claiming that the school violated her daughter’s First Amendment rights.
The design on the girl’s shirt can be seen above, right.
The school claims it had the right to prevent the girl (identified in court documents as “T.A.”) from wearing the shirt on the grounds that it violated the school’s dress code, which states:
Personal articles, clothing, or manner of dress shall make no suggestion of tobacco, drug, or alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, profanity, vulgarity, or other inappropriate subject matter.
I’m going out on a limb and guessing that the school is claiming T.A.’s shirt violated the “inappropriate subject matter” part (because it’s pretty obvious that it doesn’t make any suggestion of tobacco, drug, or alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, profanity, or vulgarity).
The school would then have to argue, with a straight face, that even though it’s legal for a 6th grader in California to have an abortion without her parents’ knowledge, it should be illegal for a 6th grader in California to wear a T-shirt to school that merely expresses an opinion about it.
Does that seem strange to you?
[Cross-posted at Generations for Life]
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Abortion is sinful,synounymous with killing,thank God the law still fronws at it in some parts of the world.Though m a lawyer by profession I advice my collegues to refrian from the institution of frivolous suits such as this.We lawyer have the burden to stop this kind of willful killing,if you are ready to get pregnant you should also be ready to accept the responsibilities of being a mother.
Posted August 2, 2010 at 9:52 am