(USA TODAY) – A high school valedictorian from Texas flipped the script on school officials by using her graduation speech to speak out against the state’s newly signed law banning abortions as early as six weeks after conception.
Paxton Smith had submitted an entirely different speech on the effect of the media on young minds to school officials for the commencement ceremony at Lake Highlands High School in Dallas on Sunday, but Smith said it was important to use the moment to criticize a controversial abortion law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott last month.
“I refuse to give up this platform ... when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights,” Smith said.
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