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Home > Resources > Legal Cases > NHS refused to admit young mothers

In 1998 the National Honor Society refused to admit two young mothers.

The district's policy excluded all young women who had become pregnant from premarital sex, but not young men who had had premarital sex. The ACLU Women's Rights Project filed a Title IX lawsuit and won.

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