NATION : School Adds ‘Unborn’ to Pledge

A Roman Catholic high school has amended the Pledge of Allegiance by adding the word unborn to reflect church opposition to abortion.

Some students at Lorain Catholic High School reportedly are unhappy about the change, which adds, after “liberty and justice for all,” the words “for the born and unborn.”

“What’s really upsetting, they are trying to make us believe what they believe about abortion,” one 17-year-old student said. “But most of us here think it’s a woman’s right to choose.”

Joanne Miller, Lorain Catholic principal, defended the move as appropriate. “We are a Catholic school and therefore our philosophy is one of pro-life,” she said. The pledge change “was suggested to us. It does not go against our philosophy.”