Posted on 04/24/2024 12:57:13 PM PDT by Morgana
An Indiana high school student and her pro-life student group are appealing a court decision against them in a lawsuit they filed after school officials derecognized the group because the student sought permission to post flyers that administrators found objectionable. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the student and the group in E.D. v. Noblesville School District entered their appearance in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on Wednesday.
In August 2021, the freshman student met with the principal of Noblesville High School to form a chapter of Students for Life of America. After the student completed all required steps, the school officially recognized the group. However, officials later told her she could not post flyers that included pro-life messages. Shortly after that, the principal derecognized the group.
“Students don’t lose their First Amendment right to free speech when they walk into a school building,” said ADF Legal Counsel Mathew Hoffmann. “This isn’t just about a flyer; this is about a school telling a high-schooler that she can’t publicly express messages that are important to her. School officials punished the student because she sought to use flyers that expressed pro-life messages. While other student groups at the school are allowed to express messages that are important to them, this club was specifically punished because of the messages on the flyers.”
At the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year, the student met with Dr. Craig McCaffrey, the principal of Noblesville High School, to discuss forming Noblesville Students for Life, which she hoped would “educate [her] peers on the issue of abortion and empower [her] peers in a local community with pregnancy-related items.”
After the student filled out the questionnaire the principal gave her, the school approved the group. A few weeks later, the student sought permission to post flyers that used a Students for Life of America template that included photographs of students holding signs in front of the U.S. Supreme Court reading, “I Reject Abortion,” “Defund Planned Parenthood,” and “I Am the Pro-Life Generation.” School staff insisted that she post the flyers without the pictures, telling her at one point that the flyer could not be “political.” The same day the student met with those administrators, the principal derecognized the group.
“We are eager to protect the rights of students whose views may differ from some preferred viewpoint,” said Zac Kester, CEO and managing attorney of Charitable Allies.
“The district court’s decision discourages parents and weakens First Amendment protections by insisting that a temporary loss of rights is nothing to worry about,” added Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America.
When this student wins their lawsuit, the Principal, out of her own pocket, should be required to cover the costs of the student’s attorney’s fees.
Yet of the boys want to wear a dress and go into the girls’ bathroom that is okay
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The problem is that these ‘boys’ cannot get pregnant, and thus will not need an abortion.
The kiddos need to comply. Start printing up the exact words of Margaret Sanger.
“She started “The Negro Project” in 1939, with the aim of expanding birth control services for Black communities in the south, according to the New York University’s project documenting Sanger’s writings. (here)
The quote is real and appears in a Dec. 10, 1939 letter to a program director advocating employing Black physicians and ministers to gain trust of the communities the program was meant to serve (here).
Sanger’s concern was to avoid a suspicion that the program’s objective was to stop Black people having babies, which having white people in charge could create.
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She wrote: “The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”***
Pretend to be pro-abortion and hand out THOSE flyers.
No I will take Rush Limbaugh’s stance.
I am “pro choice” as long as that “choice” is for life
The Army of Satan will do anything to keep the slaughter of babies continue.
I’m more interested in additional information that LifeSiteNews failed to include about the idiot, anti-American district court and judge(s) who ruled against the student.
Indiana. Sigh. Noblesville is as liberal as places like Indianapolis, Chicago, Evansville, N/W Indiana, etc. With this kind of stuff happening here, it makes me want to move to central to upper plain state to get away from it.
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