High School Valedictorian Uses Speech To Blast Texas' New Abortion Ban
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“I refuse to give up this platform to promote complacency and peace, when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights,” Paxton Smith said.
A Texas high schooler tasked with delivering the valedictorian address at her graduation ceremony ditched her school-approved speech and used her platform to take down her state’s new abortion ban last weekend. “It feels wrong to talk about anything but what is currently affecting me and millions of other women in this state,” Paxton Smith, the 2021 valedictorian at Lake Highlands High School, said as she pulled a copy of her new speech from her graduation robe.More Related News