A group of pro-life students is suing their Las Vegas high school and the surrounding school district, alleging discrimination against their campus club.
One of the plaintiffs, recent ECTA graduate Felipe Avila, who founded the Students for Life chapter at East Career and Technical Academy (ECTA) in 2019, told local news he sensed "animosity" from administrators who "did not like" his group's message. "We witnessed a lot of animosity from the administrators who I would argue did not like the pro-life message, and so they tried to suppress it as much as possible," Avila said.Avila accused the school of trying to suppress their materials and, in effect, violating their First Amendment rights.
Pro-life demonstrators (R) confront pro-choice counterparts (L) 23 January 2006, in Washington, D.C. as tens of thousands of pro-life and pro-choice opponents rally marking the 33rd anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on abortion.
AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images) "One of the biggest aspects that we've had to encounter was we've received a lot of flyer denials, and a lot of it sometimes came from the fact that it was either deemed too controversial because it said pro-life messages, or they just flat out refused to give us a yes or no answer," he alleged.