Babies and Graduation

Earlier today, a friend of mine who works for Students For Life shared an article (which you can read here). This article was about high school senior, Maddi Runkles, who happens to be pregnant. Runkles attends a private Christian school in Maryland, and, due to her pregnancy, her school is not allowing her to walk at graduation. They say she will still receive a diploma, but she cannot participate in the graduation ceremony. This isn't right.

I understand that the school wishes to uphold it's clean, Christian reputation. However, is excluding a girl from graduation for choosing life really very Christian? Christians are supposed to support life from conception to natural death. Now, I know many Christians who do not follow this, but even pro-choice groups have posted in support of Maddi. 

One of the reasons the school does not want Maddi participating in graduation is that premarital sex is a sin, and they don't want to celebrate that. However, regardless of age or circumstances, we are called to love and support pregnant women. Technically, we're called to love everyone, no matter what. Anyway, the school doesn't want to celebrate this "mistake" and make other girls in the school think that having sex and getting pregnant before marriage is okay. 

What kind of message is this really sending though? To me, it seems to be telling teen girls that if they get pregnant, they will be punished. All this does is discourage young women from choosing life.
The school wants to promote chastity and abstinence, which is all well and good, but studies show that abstinence only sex education doesn't work. Teens are going to have sex. We can educate them and try to discourage it, but the truth is, it's going to happen. When it does happen, and results in a pregnancy (which is the biological purpose of sex), we shouldn't be shaming the girl for having sex. We should encourage her to choose life for her child. If she doesn't wish to keep the child or doesn't think she's a fit mother, we should direct to adoption resources.
If you agree with me, I suggest you contact the school, which you can do here, and stand up for Maddi.