Pro-life school students say Las Vegas school district CENSORED

A Nevada high school is being sued by current and former members of an anti-abortion club at the school for claiming their case was intentionally censored.

A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that staff at the East Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas violated the First Amendment rights of Felipe Avila and Janelle Rivera when they attempted to hang banners and hand out flyers for their Students For Life. -club.

Now Avila and Rivera, who were president and vice president respectively, are suing for damages and damages and an injunction preventing the district from enforcing current club policies.

Avila no longer attends the school and it is unclear whether Rivera will remain a student there.

The lawsuit was brought on behalf of the students by lawyers from a legally conservative group, the Thomas More Society.

The lawsuit accuses the principal, principal and deputy principal of the school of “pervasive discrimination and censorship” that “took many forms” to “suppress” Students For Life’s anti-abortion message.

According to the lawsuit, Students For Life is a club that “wants to educate and inspire ECTA students to advocate for life and oppose abortion.”

Although Avila has now graduated, the lawsuit alleges he has been subjected to “years of censorship and other misconduct” by school administrators.

School boards reportedly made no attempt to hide their ‘antipathy’ for the club, and prevented the club from distributing flyers with information about a maternity aid center because they involved an ‘outside organisation’.

The Nevada high school allowed other clubs to participate in activities that Students For Life were not allowed to participate in, according to the lawsuit, which also says they are turning a blind eye to the cyberbullying Avila faced

But the lawsuit alleges that other clubs were not complying with the same rules and often advertised outside organizations, including homeless shelters and Popeyes restaurants.

They also say the club was banned from handing out anti-abortion flyers because they were “too controversial”.

Avila and Rivera also claim that they were unable to place ads in the school newspaper when other clubs did and that they were stopped from putting up a banner in the cafeteria that read ‘The future is anti-abortion’.

The complaint also states that the defendants, including the principal, have not done enough to stop cyberbullying that club founder Avila faced because of his anti-abortion views from other students.

Comments addressed to Avila included “I’m going to have an abortion just for you Felipe” and “I hope you rot in hell.”

Avila now attends the Catholic University of America and is Chief Operating Officer of Blue Bird Cured, an organization dedicated to the wellbeing of the elderly.

Nevada has liberal abortion laws, which allow termination up to 24 weeks of pregnancy.