Michelle Heinkel

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  Anti Christian reports and activities - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/30/2005    Last Visited: 10/31/2006  

  Represented by the public-interest group Liberty Counsel, student Michelle Heinkel of Cypress Lake Middle School in Fort Myers had sought permission to distribute religious and pro-life literature about the "Day of Remembrance," set aside to remember unborn children killed by abortion.

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  Faced with more schools, limited venues, district... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/22/2006    Last Visited: 11/22/2006  

  Michelle Heinkel was a Cypress Lakes Middle School student in 2003 when Browder would not allow her to distribute the anti-abortion material, saying it disrupted the learning environment.
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  Heinkel then sued the district.
  
  The U.S. Appellate Court upheld a lower court ruling that another part of the policy allowing Browder to ban potentially "disruptive" material was OK.The ruling, however, stated the district must make decisions on a case-by-case basis and could not categorically ban the distribution of all materials just because they dealt with political or religious issues.
  
  Heinkel is now a student at Cypress Lakes High School.

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  Federal court finds School Board ban unconstitutional... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/7/2006    Last Visited: 9/7/2006  

  Michelle Heinkel was a student in Cypress Lake Middle School in 2004, when she filed the lawsuit, alleging the district denied her the opportunity to distribute anti-abortion literature on the Day of Remembrance.She now attends Cypress Lake High School.

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  Florida Student Can - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/31/2004    Last Visited: 7/21/2005  

  Michelle Heinkel and her mother, Debra Heinkel, filed a federal lawsuit saying Cypress Lake Middle School violated her First Amendment rights when it disallowed her to pass out information on abortion and abortion alternatives.
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  Michelle was an 8th grade student at the school at the time and she and several other students wanted to present information about fetal development and abortion alternatives to their classmates.
  
  The lawsuit says Michelle and her friends want to distribute the pro-life information on non class time and in a manner that doesn't disrupt normal school activities.

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  Florida Student Can't Distribute Pro-Life Info on... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/5/2005    Last Visited: 12/26/2007  

  Michelle Heinkel and her mother, Debra Heinkel, filed a federal lawsuit saying Cypress Lake Middle School violated her First Amendment rights when it disallowed her to pass out information on abortion and abortion alternatives.
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  Michelle was an 8th grade student at the school at the time and she and several other students wanted to present information about fetal development and abortion alternatives to their classmates.
  
  The lawsuit says Michelle and her friends want to distribute the pro-life information on non class time and in a manner that doesn't disrupt normal school activities.

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  Judge Hears Florida Student's Pro-Life Censorship... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/3/2003    Last Visited: 2/28/2005  

  Michelle Heinkel and her mother, Debra Heinkel, filed a federal lawsuit saying the school violated her First Amendment rights when it disallowed her to pass out information on abortion and abortion alternatives.
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  Michelle is an eighth grade student at Cypress Lake Middle School.Last April, she and several other students wanted to present information about fetal development and abortion alternatives to their classmates.
  
  But Cypress Lake denied their request and said "the documents would tend to create a substantial disruption in the school environment."
  
  The lawsuit says Michelle and her friends want to distribute the pro-life information on non class time and in a manner that doesn't disrupt normal school activities.

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  Liberty Counsel Press Release - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/30/2004    Last Visited: 9/15/2006  

  LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA - Michelle Heinkel and her mother, Debra Heinkel, filed a federal lawsuit against the Lee County School District after Michelle was denied the right to distribute literature about abortion and abortion alternatives to her fellow classmates during the "Day of Remembrance."
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  LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA - Michelle Heinkel and her mother, Debra Heinkel, filed a federal lawsuit against the Lee County School District after Michelle was denied the right to distribute literature about abortion and abortion alternatives to her fellow classmates during the "Day of Remembrance."
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  Michelle is represented by Mathew D. Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel.
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  Michelle is an eighth grade student at Cypress Lake Middle School.During last year's "Day of Remembrance," Michelle and several other students wanted to distribute pro-life literature about abortion and abortion alternatives.This year's "Day of Remembrance" is scheduled for April 16, 2004, and Michelle again wants to distribute religious and pro-life literature.The "Day of Remembrance" is a day set aside to remember the 46 million children who have been lost to elective abortion and to remember the pain experienced by women who have had an abortion.The literature that Michelle wanted to pass out contained factual information about a baby's development in the womb and provided personal stories about the experiences women who have had abortions endured.

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  Naples Daily News: Bonitanews - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/15/2004    Last Visited: 6/10/2005  

  Cypress Lake Middle School student Michelle Heinkel filed a lawsuit against the Lee County School District in federal court in March claiming her First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and to freely exercise her religion are being denied by the district's refusal to permit her to hand out the literature on school grounds.
  
  U.S. District Judge John E. Steele disagreed, refusing to overturn the district's decision that Michelle cannot distribute anti-abortion literature Friday during a national "Day of Remembrance" to remember pregnancies terminated through abortion.
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  Michelle and her attorney speculated the judge ruled against her because she had not personally made the request to pass out the literature.The request was made by an organization on her behalf.
  
  "He (Steele) was probably aiming toward us at first, but since I didn't do it personally he could have changed his perspective," Michelle said from her home in Fort Myers.
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  Michelle plans to continue with her lawsuit against the School District, and may appeal Steele's ruling, said attorney Joel Oster, who is representing Michelle on behalf of the Liberty Council, an Orlando-based nonprofit legal defense organization specializing in religious and abortion law.
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  Freedom to Learn repeated the request this year, saying that students including Michelle signed forms authorizing the group to work on the students' behalf.
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  "I think he (Steele) was troubled because Michelle didn't make the request," Oster said.
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  Michelle filed a request Wednesday with Browder asking for permission to hand out the literature, Oster said.
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  Michelle and Freedom of Learn leaders had sought permission to distribute a pamphlet, part of which School District attorney Thomas Gonzalez characterized Monday as too gruesome for middle-schoolers.
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  Gonzalez said Monday that this year's request may have met a different outcome if Michelle sought permission herself before the lawsuit was filed.
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  Instead, Michelle wore a T-shirt marking the "Day of Remembrance" and tried to maintain a vow of silence.She kept breaking it because other children asked her why she was quiet and wearing the shirt.If she had literature to pass out, she could have maintained her vow and answered classmates' questions, she said.

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  Naples Daily News: Bonitanews - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/30/2004    Last Visited: 3/30/2004  

  Cypress Lake Middle School student Michelle Heinkel and her mother, Debra, filed the lawsuit Friday, claiming that Michelle's First Amendment rights were denied when school officials refused to let her hand out anti-abortion literature at school on the National Day of Remembrance in April 2003.
  
  Backed by the nonprofit Florida organization Freedom to Learn, which sponsors the day to remember aborted pregnancies and reflect on the mothers who terminated them, the Heinkels are suing the school district so Michelle can pass out fliers during the National Day of Remembrance on April 16.
  
  "What's it hurting?I would really like to know?"Michelle, 14, asked Monday.
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  Through Freedom to Learn, Michelle asked school administrators last April if she could pass out informational pamphlets explaining what happens during an abortion and that 45 million pregnancies have been terminated since 1973, according to the suit.
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  Michelle said participants are supposed to remain silent during the National Day of Remembrance, and that passing out the literature would answer classmates' questions without having to violate that code of silence.
  
  "It's not going to cause some big commotion to cause a riot and make the kids go crazy," she said.
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  Michelle said she is a Christian and belongs to the nondenominational Church of Christ.
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  Martin said Michelle and other students would receive the same rejection of they wanted to distribute literature on any other subject.

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  Naples Daily News: Letters To The Editor - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/28/2004    Last Visited: 4/28/2004  

  Our sincere congratulations to Michelle Heinkel of Cypress Lake Middle School in south Fort Myers for attempting to distribute pro-life literature to her schoolmates.

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