California School Settles Suit Over Anti-Abortion T-Shirt at Pat Dollard

California School Settles Suit Over Anti-Abortion T-Shirt

August 14th, 2010 (1) Posted By Pat Dollard.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – A California school district sued by a former sixth-grade student who was asked to remove an anti-abortion T-shirt has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle the suit.

Attorneys for Tiffany Amador said Friday that officials at Merced’s McSwain Union Elementary School called the T-shirt disruptive when she wore it in April 2008.

The shirt showed pictures of an apparent fetus and said “ABORTION: growing… growing… gone.”

Los Angeles attorney William Becker says the resolution amounted to a victory for free speech rights in schools.

But Anthony DeMaria, the school district’s attorney, says the settlement helped avoid a costly trial. The district admitted no wrongdoing.

McSwain implemented a new dress code policy this school year that prohibits most graphic T-shirts.

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Righteous Anger

Victory for free speech? hardly. More likely, a reason for a more ardent assault on the educational system. Once the commission gets done cutting niche classes like history and civics, the need to promote these issues will become back burner items. I hope this girl’s 50k will be used for a college degree in journalism, and she takes to writing about the raping of our Constitution by leftist school boards. A side issue, if people, who support abortion, were made to handle the remains of the child (fetus)after this procedure was done, or had to console the former mother after this procedure, or God forbid our elected leaders were exposed to this, then I can assure that this would not be the law of the land for long.