10 Facts Every Student Must Know About Religious Rights in School

Religious Freedom,

Liberty Institute in Texas has put together a list of 10 facts every student (and, we would add, public school) must know about religious liberty. This is a great list to look over as students head back to school.

Liberty Institute’s list includes:

  1. Students have the right to First Amendment protections in public schools.
  2. Students have the right to read their Bibles at school during free reading times.
  3. Students have the right to pray before an athletic competition, school assembly, or other extra-curricular activity.
  4. Students have the right to pray during free time, such as lunch or recess.
  5. Students have the right to share their faith with their peers.
  6. Students have the right to talk about religion with teachers and school employees.
  7. Students have the right to write or talk about God in class or school assignments.
  8. Students have the right to start a religious club at their public school.
  9. Students have the right to distribute informational flyers and use school resources for their religious club.
  10. Students have the right to wear jewelry and clothing that expresses their religious beliefs.

Liberty Institute expounds on the facts on this list on their website, and they also provide additional resources to help people understand, exercise, and protect religious liberties. Click here for more information.

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Unbundling Planned Parenthood’s Phony “Care Package”

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For years Planned Parenthood has pushed the narrative that healthcare and abortion are a package deal. Recently, however, a series of videos have called into question many of Planned Parenthood’s practices.

Today the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview has released a new commentary on Planned Parenthood’s “phony bundle.” John Stonestreet writes,

It’s a ‘package deal’ that Christians must reject, even if there were strong evidence of the link between contraceptive services and abortion rates. But given the empirical difficulties, there is no doubt what our answer should be: no deal.

You can listen to Stonestreet’s entire commentary below or read it here.

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Abby Johnson Describes Planned Parenthood’s “Tissue Donation” Program

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Pro-life advocate Abby Johnson recently sat down with the Daily Signal to describe the process by which Planned Parenthood affiliates conduct the “tissue donation” programs we have talked about over the past few weeks.

Johnson was a Planned Parenthood clinic director until 2009; she became pro-life after witnessing an ultrasound-guided abortion.

Johnson told reporters,

“We would tell the client that we are participating in a study and she has an opportunity today to donate the tissue that’s removed from her uterus to a research laboratory where they will be working on life-saving treatments for various diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or other types of medical studies. We would tell her this is an opportunity for her to possibly save the life of someone else by donating this tissue. By creating this altruistic scenario, women would almost always consent and say, ‘Yes, absolutely.’ . . .

“At that time, and this was of course when I worked there until 2009, we as staff members were compensated for every patient that we were able to enroll in a study. It creates coercive tactics.”

You can read Abby Johnson’s full interview here.

Since leaving Planned Parenthood, Abby Johnson has founded a non-profit called And Then There Were None, which specializes in helping men and women leave the abortion industry.

Last month she wrote a column describing the process by which she used to separate aborted fetal remains at Planned Parenthood for shipment to researchers, saying,

“All of the blood, body parts and extra tissue would be collected into a glass jar. That glass jar would come to me in the POC (products of conception) lab through a ‘pass through specimen cabinet.’ I would take the jar to our sink, dump everything into a huge strainer, rinse out the jar and then rinse the blood out of the strainer. After I had a clean body, I would dump it into the glass baking dish that was sitting on top of an x-ray light box. I would put a little bit of water in the glass dish so that the body parts would float…that made it easier for me to manipulate them.”

You can read that full column here.

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