Clark County School District in Las Vegas has settled in the lawsuit from a young high school student who was denied permission to create a pro-life club at her school.
“We’re pleased with the quick response we’ve received from District officials,” Jocelyn Floyd, Associate Counsel of Thomas More Society, said in a press release. “They have acknowledged that these are serious issues and we’re grateful for their efforts to protect the speech rights of not just Angelique and her club, but of all future clubs in the Clark County School District.”
Angelique Clark, a junior at West Career and Technical Academy, spent months requesting to start the club, and received little response from the high school’s administration. The Assistant Principal, Allen Yee, stated that the club was ‘too controversial’ and ‘not inclusive.’
The Thomas More Society, a not-for profit law firm, picked up Clark’s case and immediately filed suit against the school district.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the the school district sent a letter to the Thomas More Society stating that Clark was allowed to start a, “non-curriculum related, non-school sponsored, student initiated, student led” chapter of the Students for Life.”
“We are so proud of Angelique for representing the pro-life generation’s passion for the preborn, and for her courage in standing up to a hostile school administration that was trying to take away her First Amendment rights,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America. “It is often in high school where the first flames of pro-life activism ignite and students get involved in their school pro-life club…so it is crucial that high school students are educated and informed about what abortion truly is and the alternatives that exist.”
Clark said she is excited to finally be able to start a pro-life club at her school.
“I look forward to running the WCTA pro-life club with all the other students who have already signed up to be a voice for the voiceless and ignored—the pre-born and the mothers who think abortion is their only choice,” Clark said in a statement.
Clark County School District did not return a request for comment.
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