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Celebration and Struggle: Pregnant and Parenting Teens Honor Title IX Anniversary and Demand Equal Treatment

By Micah McCoy, ACLU of New Mexico at 4:41pm

“I’m proving everyone wrong by graduating this May, by going to college, by getting my degree AND taking care of my daughter.”

That’s what Brianna Miranda, an 18-year-old high school senior from Las Cruces, NM, stood up and said in the New Mexico State Capitol last Tuesday. Brianna, the mother of a two-year-old daughter, faces the same struggle thousands of other pregnant and parenting teens face in New Mexico: graduating from high school.

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