Roswell, USA - Roswell Independent School District officials say the district's decision to bar students from distributing dolls that resemble fetuses does not violate the students' constitutional rights.
District administrators said they prohibited the students from Church on the Move from distributing the dolls because school policy does not allow advertising or solicitation on campus.
The district says that although the dolls had a Bible verse attached, they were not confiscated for religious reasons. The cards with the Bible verse promoted the services of a pregnancy resource center, school officials said.
Attorneys for Liberty Counsel, a legal advocacy group for religious freedom and anti-abortion efforts, suggested the district was violating the free speech rights of the high school students. But district officials say some students disrupted class with the dolls earlier this year.