“We're not banning books — we're protecting parental rights!”

What You Say

Removing books from school and public libraries based on ideological objections is book banning, regardless of branding. Parents already have rights: they can limit what their own children read. What 'parental rights' bills do is give one parent's objection veto power over every family in the district. That's not rights — it's censorship with a focus group-tested name.