National Prolife T-Shirt Day

On April 28, 2003, Rock For Life, a group dedicated to offering the truth about life issues to America’s youth, will be sponsoring the first annual “National Prolife T-shirt Day.” It is an effort to have the voice of America’s prolife youth be heard and an opportunity to inform students that they have a constitutional right to wear prolife clothing.

Rock For Life wants to see every prolife student exercise their right to free speech. This “National Prolife T-Shirt Day” is an attempt to make students aware that the Constitution guarantees them the right to wear such T-Shirts and even hand out prolife brochures every day of the year. As the Supreme Court stated in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 5066 (1969),

“School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school as well as out of school are ‘persons’ under our Constitution...They [students] may not be confined to the expression of those sentiments that are officially approved. In the absence of a specific showing of constitutionally valid reasons to regulate their speech, students are entitled to freedom of expression of their views.”

According to the Thomas More Center for Law and Justice, this court case goes on to explain that students are protected in every setting from the classroom to the cafeteria to the playing field when exercising their freedom of speech so long as they do not disrupt the educational process. Even though this ruling is clear, many school administrators have threatened to punish students who refused to remove or turn their prolife clothing inside out. In every case, the administration later apologized and allowed the student to wear their clothing after being shown their mistake.

Be a prolife leader and use the designated day, April 28, as a starting point for letting your school’s student population know about the lies and horrors of abortion. Show your school and town what you believe in. If you are choosing to participate in National Prolife T-Shirt Day, let Right to Life of Michigan know via e-mail with your name, age, town, state, school, and e-mail address.

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